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Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 10:44:35 -0700 From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org> To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org> Cc: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, mchan@...adcom.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 17/20][BNX2]: Enhance the heartbeat. On Wed, 02 May 2007 04:01:04 -0400 Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org> wrote: > David Miller wrote: > > From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org> > > Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 03:38:53 -0400 > > > >> * adding code for a situation that never occurs in the upstream kernel. > > > > What we could do is simply have Ingo carry this bnx2 driver patch in > > his -rt patch series, and then it will propagate into upstream as soon > > as it matters. > > Seems quite reasonable to me... > > Jeff Maybe if we used a hrtimer in this case, the -rt kernel wouldn't delay the timer. Seems like a real time system would have some mechanism to ensure a timer fires in time. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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