Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756606AbXLSNtg (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Dec 2007 08:49:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753263AbXLSNt3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Dec 2007 08:49:29 -0500 Received: from mx2.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.151.9]:44910 "EHLO mx2.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753009AbXLSNt2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Dec 2007 08:49:28 -0500 Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 14:48:07 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar To: Michael Buesch Cc: bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de, Larry Finger , mvtodevnull@gmail.com, Daniel Walker , akpm@linux-foundation.org, Ray Lee , n , SimonHolm=?iso-8859-1?q?Th=F8gerse?=@mail.berlios.de, matthias.kaehlcke@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jonathan@jonmasters.org, kjwinchester@gmail.com, linux@bohmer.net Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore to mutex Message-ID: <20071219134805.GC21282@elte.hu> References: <20071213003028.676998182@mvista.com> <520b60a90712181812l3fd6c4cbicece82a4487d0587@mail.gmail.com> <4768D216.3000904@lwfinger.net> <200712191046.54147.mb@bu3sch.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200712191046.54147.mb@bu3sch.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamScore: -1.5 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-1.5 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.2.3 -1.5 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 851 Lines: 24 * Michael Buesch wrote: > On Wednesday 19 December 2007 09:11:02 Larry Finger wrote: > > > > > > or could tsc being marked as unstable have anything to do with the > > > speed of network transfers? > > > > Absolutely not. > > Well, if the clocksource of the machine is unstable it _can_ cause all > kinds of weird things. If you think something is broken in the tsc > stuff, please switch to using another clocksource. also, if it gets marked unstable (which is typical on laptops) then the kernel switches to a more stable, non-TSC clocksource automatically. (hpet or pit) Ingo -- 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/