Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751102AbWHGGSs (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Aug 2006 02:18:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751104AbWHGGSs (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Aug 2006 02:18:48 -0400 Received: from dsl027-180-168.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([216.27.180.168]:53425 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751102AbWHGGSr (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Aug 2006 02:18:47 -0400 Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2006 23:18:46 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20060806.231846.71090637.davem@davemloft.net> To: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: tytso@mit.edu, mchan@broadcom.com, herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@elte.hu Subject: Re: [PATCH -rt DO NOT APPLY] Fix for tg3 networking lockup From: David Miller In-Reply-To: References: <20060803.144845.66061203.davem@davemloft.net> <20060803235326.GC7894@thunk.org> X-Mailer: Mew version 4.2 on Emacs 21.4 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 613 Lines: 15 From: Steven Rostedt 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. - 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/