Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751555AbVJSGsM (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Oct 2005 02:48:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751556AbVJSGsM (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Oct 2005 02:48:12 -0400 Received: from ms-smtp-03.nyroc.rr.com ([24.24.2.57]:10424 "EHLO ms-smtp-03.nyroc.rr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751553AbVJSGsM (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Oct 2005 02:48:12 -0400 Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 02:48:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Steven Rostedt X-X-Sender: rostedt@localhost.localdomain To: Stephen Hemminger cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: 2.6.14-rc4-rt6, skge vs. sk98lin In-Reply-To: <20051018095028.4b78dbb2@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: References: <1129599910.5031.3.camel@cmn3.stanford.edu> <435456A1.6020208@pobox.com> <1129600953.5031.6.camel@cmn3.stanford.edu> <20051018095028.4b78dbb2@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1589 Lines: 41 On Tue, 18 Oct 2005, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 19:02:33 -0700 > Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote: > > > On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 21:57 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote: > > > > I'm running 2.6.14-rc4-rt6 and trying the skge driver instead of the > > > > sk98lin and I'm getting these warnings in my logs (this is probably not > > > > related to the rt patch): > > > > > > > > network driver disabled interrupts: skge_xmit_frame+0x0/0x320 [skge] > > > > > > > > No other relevant messages around that I can see. Is this a bug? Any > > > > information I could supply to help debug it? > > > > > > This is a bogus message added by the -rt patch. It is not a bug. > > > > > > The trylock scheme in some newer net drivers (grep for NETDEV_TX_LOCKED) > > > uses local_irq_save/restore because there is no > > > spin_trylock_irqsave/spin_trylock_failed_irqrestore API. > > > > Would it have any undesirable effect to find this and comment it out? > > There are quite a few messages in the logs. Knowing it is not a bug I > > may try the driver a bit more (I rebooted into sk98lin just in case ;-) > > > > Thanks for the info. > > -- Fernando > > Or get the -rt folks to come with a better way. > Like adding a spin_trylock_irqsave/spin_trylock_failed_irqrestore API? -- Steve - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/