From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [Cbe-oss-dev] [RFC, PATCH] CELL Oprofile SPU =?iso-8859-1?q?profiling=09updated=09patch?=
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 01:33:13 +0100
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On Thursday 15 February 2007 22:50, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> Is this 1.5ms with interrupts disabled? ?This time period is problematic
> from a realtime perspective if so -- need to be able to preempt.

No, interrupts should be enabled here. Still, 1.5ms is probably a little
too long without a cond_resched() in case kernel preemption is disabled.

	Arnd <><
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