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From: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
To: Stuart MacDonald <stuartm@connecttech.com>
Cc: "'Alan Cox'" <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	"'Russell King'" <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>,
	"'Linux Kernel Mailing List'" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [BUG][2.6.8.1] serial driver hangs SMP kernel, but not the UPkernel
Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2004 08:10:42 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <418643E2.9080006@microgate.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000201c4bfe2$7389eeb0$294b82ce@stuartm>

Stuart MacDonald wrote:
> From: Paul Fulghum
> I always thought the whole point of low_latency was to make the
> receive-path very fast, which means specifically allowing the flip
> routine to run from the ISR. So checking for calling from the ISR and
> specifically disallowing that is basically negating the entire raison
> d'etre for low_latency.

I was thought it was to speed processing if the
caller was already in process context. Maybe the
real intentions are lost to history.

Moving forward, Alan stated that the flip
routine should not be called in interrupt context.
His last post concerning some transient state
of low_latency has confused me.

Currently, with the 8250 driver and N_TTY
line discipline, calling the flip routine from
ISR causes an SMP deadlock. There are two paths that
cause this:
1. low_latency is set
2. flip buffer becomes full

So calling the flip routine from the ISR may work
with some specific drivers, but it would be
dangerous to assume this works in all cases.

-- 
Paul Fulghum
paulkf@microgate.com

  reply	other threads:[~2004-11-01 15:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-29 19:55 [BUG][2.6.8.1] serial driver hangs SMP kernel, but not the UP kernel Tim_T_Murphy
2004-10-29 20:20 ` Russell King
2004-10-29 22:18   ` Paul Fulghum
2004-10-29 23:40   ` Paul Fulghum
2004-10-30 22:43     ` Alan Cox
2004-10-31  0:26       ` Paul Fulghum
2004-11-01  7:14         ` [BUG][2.6.8.1] serial driver hangs SMP kernel, but not the UPkernel Stuart MacDonald
2004-11-01 14:10           ` Paul Fulghum [this message]
2004-11-01 15:12             ` Stuart MacDonald
2004-11-01 23:02             ` Alan Cox
2004-11-02  0:18               ` Paul Fulghum
2004-10-29 21:08 ` [BUG][2.6.8.1] serial driver hangs SMP kernel, but not the UP kernel Paul Fulghum
2005-01-10 20:36 [BUG][2.6.8.1] serial driver hangs SMP kernel, but not the UPkernel Tim_T_Murphy

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