Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 19 Oct 2005 02:48:02 -0400 (EDT) | From | Steven Rostedt <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.14-rc4-rt6, skge vs. sk98lin |
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On Tue, 18 Oct 2005, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 19:02:33 -0700 > Fernando Lopez-Lezcano <nando@ccrma.Stanford.EDU> wrote: > > > On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 21:57 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote: > > > > I'm running 2.6.14-rc4-rt6 and trying the skge driver instead of the > > > > sk98lin and I'm getting these warnings in my logs (this is probably not > > > > related to the rt patch): > > > > > > > > network driver disabled interrupts: skge_xmit_frame+0x0/0x320 [skge] > > > > > > > > No other relevant messages around that I can see. Is this a bug? Any > > > > information I could supply to help debug it? > > > > > > This is a bogus message added by the -rt patch. It is not a bug. > > > > > > The trylock scheme in some newer net drivers (grep for NETDEV_TX_LOCKED) > > > uses local_irq_save/restore because there is no > > > spin_trylock_irqsave/spin_trylock_failed_irqrestore API. > > > > Would it have any undesirable effect to find this and comment it out? > > There are quite a few messages in the logs. Knowing it is not a bug I > > may try the driver a bit more (I rebooted into sk98lin just in case ;-) > > > > Thanks for the info. > > -- Fernando > > Or get the -rt folks to come with a better way. >
Like adding a spin_trylock_irqsave/spin_trylock_failed_irqrestore API?
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