From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267278AbUHXRuc (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Aug 2004 13:50:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267575AbUHXRub (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Aug 2004 13:50:31 -0400 Received: from mail4.utc.com ([192.249.46.193]:43655 "EHLO mail4.utc.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267278AbUHXRua (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Aug 2004 13:50:30 -0400 Message-ID: <412B7FCB.10208@cybsft.com> Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 12:50:03 -0500 From: "K.R. Foley" Organization: Cybersoft Solutions, Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.3 (X11/20040803) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lee Revell CC: Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel Subject: Re: [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.8.1-P8 References: <20040816113131.GA30527@elte.hu> <20040816120933.GA4211@elte.hu> <1092716644.876.1.camel@krustophenia.net> <20040817080512.GA1649@elte.hu> <20040819073247.GA1798@elte.hu> <20040820133031.GA13105@elte.hu> <20040820195540.GA31798@elte.hu> <20040821140501.GA4189@elte.hu> <20040823210151.GA10949@elte.hu> <1093312154.862.17.camel@krustophenia.net> <20040824054128.GA29027@elte.hu> <1093326406.817.7.camel@krustophenia.net> <412B4736.4040706@cybsft.com> <1093365170.817.27.camel@krustophenia.net> In-Reply-To: <1093365170.817.27.camel@krustophenia.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.85.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Lee Revell wrote: > > I am able to generate a 1012 usec latency by flood pinging the broadcast > address. These are pretty pathological cases, but if we are going for > bounded latency it seems like they should be addressed. > > Lee > I agree, if that is possible. Whether it's possible in all cases is not something I am really qualified to answer. kr