From: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
To: "'Roger Luethi'" <rl@hellgate.ch>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Shing Chuang <ShingChuang@via.com.tw>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] #2 VIA Rhine stalls: TxAbort handling
Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 20:46:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3CE55009.9050505@colorfullife.com> (raw)
>> All the three conditions caused the TXON bit of CR1 went off. the
>> driver must wait a little while until the bit go off, reset the pointer of
>> [...]
>> do {} while (BYTE_REG_BITS_IS_ON(CR0_TXON,&pMacRegs->byCR0));
>
> The driver "waits a little" in the interrupt handler? How long can that
> take, worst case? I don't know of many places where the kernel stops to
> wait for an external device to change some value.
>
It's not that uncommon: Most network drivers busy-wait after stopping
the tx process during netif_close().
But I would add a maximum timeout and a printk - just to avoid
unexplainable system hangs. One example would be natsemi_stop_rxtx() in
drivers/net/natsemi.c.
IIRC all register reads from the addresses that belong to a pulled out
PCMCIA card return 0xFFFFFFFF ;-)
Shing, I don't like the empty body of the while loop. It's not a bug,
but doesn't that generate a large load on the pci bus?
I've always added an udelay(1), i.e. wait one microsecond, into such loops.
--
Manfred
next reply other threads:[~2002-05-17 18:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-05-17 18:46 Manfred Spraul [this message]
2002-05-17 19:56 ` [PATCH] #2 VIA Rhine stalls: TxAbort handling 'Roger Luethi'
2002-05-18 10:08 ` David Woodhouse
[not found] <369B0912E1F5D511ACA5003048222B75A3C06E@EXCHANGE2>
[not found] ` <20020518040143.GA9318@k3.hellgate.ch>
2002-05-17 23:13 ` Ivan G.
2002-05-18 19:11 ` 'Roger Luethi'
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-05-16 10:03 Shing Chuang
2002-05-16 18:03 ` 'Roger Luethi'
2002-05-16 18:25 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-05-16 20:31 ` 'Roger Luethi'
2002-05-16 16:39 ` Ivan G.
2002-05-16 21:05 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-05-17 0:16 ` 'Roger Luethi'
2002-05-17 12:51 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-05-17 16:25 ` 'Roger Luethi'
2002-05-16 3:13 Roger Luethi
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