Re: [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.8.1-P1

[Ingo Molnar]

* Lee Revell <rlrevell@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > +	touch_preempt_timing();
> >         while ((readb(ioaddr + MIICmd) & 0x40) && --boguscnt > 0)
> >                 ;
> > +	touch_preempt_timing();
> > 
> > assuming that the latencies still show up even if delimited like this. 
> > (note that this only changes the way the latency is tracked - the
> > latency itself is still there so this isnt a fix.)
> > 
> 
> Sure, but, what would this accomplish, if the latency is still there? 
> Are we just trying to track down exactly where in the network driver
> this is triggered?

yeah. If it's the first chunk then we could perhaps avoid it by doing it
outside of the lock.

	Ingo
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