Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 21:52:53 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Cc: kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: preempt & ne2k
Message-ID: <20020127215253.A793@elf.ucw.cz>
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Hi!

> > testing the patch complaining about, AND one that seems like it could be 
> > addressed by using IRQ disabling as a latency guard in addition to spinlocks.
> 
> I dont believe anyone has tested the driver hard with pre-empt. Its not that
> this driver can't be fixed. Its that this is one tiny example of maybe 
> thousands of other similar flaws lurking. There is no obvious automated way
> to find them either.

So.... you have shown performance problem in one driver. Maybe *bad*
performance problem, but only performance problem. There may be other
performance problems out there. And what?
								Pavel
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