Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 06 Aug 2006 23:18:46 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: [PATCH -rt DO NOT APPLY] Fix for tg3 networking lockup | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2006 01:34:56 -0400 (EDT)
> My suggestion would be to separate that tg3_timer into 4 different > timers, which is what it actually looks like.
Timers have non-trivial cost. It's cheaper to have one and vector off to the necessary operations each tick internalls.
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