From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com>,
Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>,
discuss@x86-64.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [discuss] Re: [PATCH] adjust x86-64 watchdog tick calculation
Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 01:21:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050513232122.GD2016@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1116024993.6380.47.camel@mindpipe>
Hi!
> > > > > > Because it kills machine when interrupt latency gets too high?
> > > > > > Like reading battery status using i2c...
> > > > >
> > > > > That's a bug in the I2C reader then. Don't shot the messenger for bad news.
> > > >
> > > > Disagreed.
> > > >
> > > > Linux is not real time OS. Perhaps some real-time constraints "may not
> > > > spend > 100msec with interrupts disabled" would be healthy
> > > ^^^^
> > > You mean "microseconds", right? 100ms will be perceived by the user as,
> > > well, their machine freezing for 100ms...
> >
> > I did mean miliseconds. IIRC current watchdog is at one second and it
> > still triggers even in cases when operation just takes too long.
>
> I thought there was an understanding that 1 ms would be the target for
> desktop responsiveness. So yes, disabling interrupts for more than 1ms
> is considered a bug.
I do not think so.
In may be "worth fixing", but no, that does not mean you should stick
"if ints_disabled > 1msec panic()" into code. That would make most
systems unusable.
Think pio-only disks, for example. Think serial console.
Pavel
--
Boycott Kodak -- for their patent abuse against Java.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-05-13 23:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-05-12 8:27 [PATCH] adjust x86-64 watchdog tick calculation Jan Beulich
2005-05-12 10:00 ` Alexander Nyberg
2005-05-12 11:46 ` [discuss] " Andi Kleen
2005-05-12 14:29 ` Pavel Machek
2005-05-13 11:30 ` Andi Kleen
2005-05-13 19:52 ` Pavel Machek
2005-05-13 21:27 ` Lee Revell
2005-05-13 22:51 ` Pavel Machek
2005-05-13 22:56 ` Lee Revell
2005-05-13 23:21 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2005-05-13 23:29 ` Dave Jones
2005-05-15 10:52 ` Andi Kleen
2005-05-15 10:36 ` Andi Kleen
2005-05-15 10:51 ` Pavel Machek
2005-05-15 10:54 ` Andi Kleen
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