linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer

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Message-ID: <4768D216.3000904@lwfinger.net>
Date:	Wed, 19 Dec 2007 00:11:02 -0800
From:	Larry Finger <larry.finger@...inger.net>
To:	mvtodevnull@...il.com
CC:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>, Michael Buesch <mb@...sch.de>,
	Daniel Walker <dwalker@...sta.com>,
	Ray Lee <ray-lk@...rabbit.org>,
	Simon Holm Thøgersen 
	<odie@...aau.dk>, matthias.kaehlcke@...il.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux@...mer.net,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, kjwinchester@...il.com,
	jonathan@...masters.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	bcm43xx-dev@...ts.berlios.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore
 to mutex

mvtodevnull@...il.com wrote:
> Larry, thanks for being so patient so far. Tomorrow I plan to take my
> laptop to somewhere with coffee and a wireless network. For now
> though, can you tell me if these messages could be related:
> PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 7 of bridge 0000:00:05.0
> PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 8 of bridge 0000:00:05.0

I don't know what these regions are, but I doubt if they have any relation to your problem.
> 
> or could tsc being marked as unstable have anything to do with the
> speed of network transfers?

Absolutely not.

Larry


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