Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 2.6.17-rc5-mm1 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Date | Wed, 31 May 2006 08:39:02 +0200 |
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On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 21:14 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 30 May 2006 23:17:28 -0400 > Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
> Without having looked at it very hard, I'd venture that this is a false > positive - that driver uses disable_irq() to prevent reentry onto that > lock. > > It does that because it knows it's about to spend a long time talking with > the mii registers and it doesn't want to do that with interrupts disabled.
the scsi controller who shares that irq with your NIC just *enjoys* long disable_irq() periods.. it can be nice and lazy about it ;)
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