From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754105AbZH3UiF (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Aug 2009 16:38:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754073AbZH3UiE (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Aug 2009 16:38:04 -0400 Received: from electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com ([213.41.134.224]:39856 "EHLO electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752712AbZH3UiD (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Aug 2009 16:38:03 -0400 Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 22:37:35 +0200 From: Francois Romieu To: David Dillow Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" , Michael Riepe , Michael Buesch , Rui Santos , Michael B??ker , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] r8169: Reduce looping in the interrupt handler. Message-ID: <20090830203735.GA24912@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> References: <1251294974.14241.9.camel@obelisk.thedillows.org> <1251295175.14241.11.camel@obelisk.thedillows.org> <20090826213024.GA20428@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> <20090827052423.GA1709@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> <20090827232024.GA30119@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> <1251422978.21865.2.camel@obelisk.thedillows.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1251422978.21865.2.camel@obelisk.thedillows.org> X-Organisation: Land of Sunshine Inc. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org David Dillow : [...] > It'll be this weekend, but I can see cases where it can lock my chip up > -- they should be rare, but then I thought your case would be extremely > rare... I don't get it. Can you elaborate the relevant cases or give some sample scenarios for them ? -- Ueimor