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From: "Kok, Auke" <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: "Kok, Auke" <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>,
	Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>, NetDev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>,
	"Ronciak, John" <john.ronciak@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] e1000e: New pci-express e1000 driver (currently for ICH9 devices only)
Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2007 21:25:05 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46B7F421.1020509@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <p737io8caai.fsf@bingen.suse.de>

Andi Kleen wrote:
> "Kok, Auke" <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com> writes:
> 
>> All,
>>
>> Another update on e1000e. Many thanks to Jeff for helping out and
>> getting this going forward. The driver is unfortunately still too
>> large to post, so please use the URL's below to review:
> 
> Just some things I noticed; no comprehensive review

thanks, quick reply to one of the issues below, others I'll take into account 
and look into deeper.


> +       mod_timer(&adapter->blink_timer, jiffies + E1000_ID_INTERVAL);
> Should use round_jiffies to avoid wakeups

actually, not here - we don't want the led to blink unreliably. If the timer 
gets stalled beyond 1/2 a second and is irregular, you'll never be able to 
identify the proper adapter port in you data center.

remember, this is only used once the user invokes 'ethtool -p'


Auke

  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-07  4:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-06 21:57 [PATCH] e1000e: New pci-express e1000 driver (currently for ICH9 devices only) Kok, Auke
2007-08-07  3:07 ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-07  4:25   ` Kok, Auke [this message]
2007-08-07  5:37     ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-08-10 20:17   ` Kok, Auke
2007-08-07 16:26 ` Jeff Garzik

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