Re: [discuss] Re: [PATCH] adjust x86-64 watchdog tick calculation

[Lee Revell]

On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 21:52 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> On Pá 13-05-05 13:30:23, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > Because it kills machine when interrupt latency gets too high?
> > > Like reading battery status using i2c...
> > 
> > That's a bug in the I2C reader then. Don't shot the messenger for bad news.
> 
> Disagreed.
> 
> Linux is not real time OS. Perhaps some real-time constraints "may not
> spend > 100msec with interrupts disabled" would be healthy
             ^^^^
You mean "microseconds", right?  100ms will be perceived by the user as,
well, their machine freezing for 100ms...

Lee

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