linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -rt DO NOT APPLY] Fix for tg3 networking lockup

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Message-Id: <20060806.231846.71090637.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Sun, 06 Aug 2006 23:18:46 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	rostedt@...dmis.org
Cc:	tytso@....edu, mchan@...adcom.com, herbert@...dor.apana.org.au,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...e.hu
Subject: Re: [PATCH -rt DO NOT APPLY] Fix for tg3 networking lockup

From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2006 01:34:56 -0400 (EDT)

> My suggestion would be to separate that tg3_timer into 4 different
> timers, which is what it actually looks like.

Timers have non-trivial cost.  It's cheaper to have one and
vector off to the necessary operations each tick internalls.

That's why it's implemented as one timer.
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