From: Ron Mercer <ron.mercer@qlogic.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: "netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH 3/3] qlge: Add watchdog timer.
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 08:04:27 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100204160427.GA9938@linux-ox1b.qlogic.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100203.193222.64773800.davem@davemloft.net>
> This does a PIO to the chip every single second?
>
> How about something like 5 or 10 seconds, and use the
> deferrable interfaces so that it's more friendly to
> power management on an otherwise idle system?
>
You are correct that we don't need to check every second.
I will increase the duration and test it out a deferrable timer.
Thanks
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-04 16:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-03 17:24 [net-next PATCH 0/3] qlge: EEH fixes Ron Mercer
2010-02-03 17:24 ` [net-next PATCH 1/3] qlge: Move reset from eeh io_resume to slot_reset Ron Mercer
2010-02-04 4:06 ` David Miller
2010-02-03 17:24 ` [net-next PATCH 2/3] qlge: Add check for eeh failure when closing device Ron Mercer
2010-02-04 4:06 ` David Miller
2010-02-03 17:24 ` [net-next PATCH 3/3] qlge: Add watchdog timer Ron Mercer
2010-02-04 3:32 ` David Miller
2010-02-04 16:04 ` Ron Mercer [this message]
2010-02-04 20:06 ` Ron Mercer
2010-02-04 20:29 ` David Miller
2010-02-04 21:19 ` Ron Mercer
2010-02-04 21:32 ` David Miller
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