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To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] Debugging posted PCI writes 
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Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 12:49:16 -0700
From: Grant Grundler <grundler@cup.hp.com>
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Matthew Wilcox wrote:
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> Perhaps a timer that writes the queue every second would help?  It may
> be considered unreasonable for writes to be delayed _indefinitely_.

it is. that's what I was warning you about. need a timer to push
writes out every jiffie or so.

overall this is a great idea that was discussed at OLS/kernel summit.

grant
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