From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
mchan@broadcom.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 17/20][BNX2]: Enhance the heartbeat.
Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 10:44:35 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070502104435.6471751e@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46384540.6090509@garzik.org>
On Wed, 02 May 2007 04:01:04 -0400
Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> wrote:
> David Miller wrote:
> > From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
> > Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 03:38:53 -0400
> >
> >> * adding code for a situation that never occurs in the upstream kernel.
> >
> > What we could do is simply have Ingo carry this bnx2 driver patch in
> > his -rt patch series, and then it will propagate into upstream as soon
> > as it matters.
>
> Seems quite reasonable to me...
>
> Jeff
Maybe if we used a hrtimer in this case, the -rt kernel wouldn't delay
the timer. Seems like a real time system would have some mechanism
to ensure a timer fires in time.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-02 17:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-02 1:17 [PATCH 17/20][BNX2]: Enhance the heartbeat Michael Chan
2007-05-02 7:17 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-02 7:24 ` David Miller
2007-05-02 7:38 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-02 7:54 ` David Miller
2007-05-02 8:01 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-02 17:44 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2007-05-02 8:40 ` Christoph Hellwig
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