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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PREEMPT_RT with e1000
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 08:49:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050901064902.GA5179@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1125518602.15034.3.camel@dhcp153.mvista.com>


* Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com> wrote:

> It looks like Gigabit Ethernet is still having some problems. This is 
> with the e1000 driver. If I remove all the qdisc_restart changes it 
> starts to work the warning below goes away, but it has 
> smp_processor_id warnings.

hmmm. The thing to watch out for there is dev->xmit_lock_owner - it's a 
"spin lock does not preempt" assumption that is open-coded. What the 
qdisc_restart changes do is to remove this assumption. Perhaps it would 
be enough to just keep the trylock logic, and to mute the 
xmit_lock_owner logic.

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2005-09-01  6:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-31 20:03 PREEMPT_RT with e1000 Daniel Walker
2005-09-01  6:49 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2005-09-01  7:10 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-09-01 14:43   ` Daniel Walker
2005-09-01 15:07     ` Daniel Walker

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