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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
To: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	mchan@broadcom.com, herbert@gondor.apana.org.au,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -rt DO NOT APPLY] Fix for tg3 networking lockup
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2006 17:25:29 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44D293F9.7040204@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060804000707.GA15342@thunk.org>

Theodore Tso wrote:
> Removing the timer-based "ping" might be a good thing to do from the
> point of view of reducing power utilization of laptops (but hey, I
> don't have a tg3 in my laptop, so I won't worry about it a whole lot :-), 
> but I agree that in general the RT patches need to be able to
> call functions such as tg3_timer() reliably even when under a high
> real-time process workload, without needing to use the blunt hammer of
> "chrt -f 95 `pidof softirq-timer`".  (Since not all timer callbacks
> need to be run at rt prio 95.)
> 

I suppose the timer subsystem needs a "I'd like to have this timer called at time X, but it's ok to call it
later until time X+Y" option; that's useful for RT like stuff but also for power savings...
(eg you can batch timer firings that way a lot better)

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-08-04  0:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20060803075704.GC27835@thunk.org>
2006-08-03 10:00 ` [PATCH -rt DO NOT APPLY] Fix for tg3 networking lockup Herbert Xu
2006-08-03 16:32   ` Theodore Tso
2006-08-03 16:46     ` Daniel Walker
2006-08-03 17:17       ` Theodore Tso
2006-08-03 21:45         ` David Miller
2006-08-03 16:49     ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-08-03 17:04       ` Alistair John Strachan
2006-08-03 21:43         ` David Miller
2006-08-03 17:28       ` Theodore Tso
2006-08-03 18:36   ` Michael Chan
2006-08-03 20:17     ` Theodore Tso
2006-08-03 21:48       ` David Miller
2006-08-03 23:28         ` Michael Chan
2006-08-03 23:43           ` David Miller
2006-08-04  0:07             ` Theodore Tso
2006-08-04  0:20               ` David Miller
2006-08-04  0:25               ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2006-08-04  3:23           ` Theodore Tso
2006-08-04  3:45             ` Michael Chan
2006-08-05 20:26               ` Theodore Tso
2006-08-08  6:36                 ` Michael Chan
2006-08-25 22:33                   ` Marc Bevand
2006-08-25 22:55                     ` Michael Chan
2006-08-25 23:48                       ` Marc Bevand
2006-08-26  0:01                         ` Michael Chan
2006-08-03 23:53         ` Theodore Tso
2006-08-03 23:56           ` David Miller
2006-08-03 23:59             ` Herbert Xu
2006-08-04  0:01               ` David Miller
2006-08-04  0:16                 ` Michael Chan
2006-08-04  0:03             ` Daniel Walker
2006-08-07  5:34           ` Steven Rostedt
2006-08-07  6:18             ` David Miller
2006-08-08 12:24               ` Steven Rostedt
2006-08-08 13:13                 ` Steven Rostedt
2006-08-08 22:00                 ` David Miller
2006-08-08 22:27                   ` Steven Rostedt
2006-08-09 11:29                     ` Roman Zippel

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