Re: e1000e NVM mutex contention warnings

[Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>]

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 15:15 -0700, Brandeburg, Jesse wrote:
>> Ben Hutchings wrote:
>> > What's your plan for collecting information about NVM mutex contention
>> > and when do you intend to remove the warnings?  I have to say I find
>> > this way of testing very user-unfriendly and would like to see it gone
>> > as soon as possible.
>>
>> Hi Ben,
>>
>> checking linus' tree and davem's current net-2.6 tree shows that the
>> code was removed as of commit: 0a834a36ac92375cd82d9e4fe4f571e257997d6a
>>
>> it was put in 2/14/2009, and was included in 2.6.30-rc1 by linus.
>
> Thanks.  I had a look but somehow missed that this was already on the
> way out in 2.6.30.
>
>> are you suggesting that we maybe try to push to -stable too?
>
> If you now have the information you need about contention, then it seems
> to me that it would be worthwhile to remove the unnecessary warnings.
> If you don't want to submit a stable update then I can patch it out in
> the Debian kernel package.
>
> Ben.

I am fine with pushing this patch to -stable.

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Cheers,
Jeff