From: Andrew Morton <andrewm@uow.edu.au>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>,
netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: PATCH: 8139too kernel thread
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 11:48:56 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A0C9778.E982F55B@uow.edu.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200011102129.QAA13369@havoc.gtf.org>
Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
> (note Linus, not for applying...)
>
> Here is a patch, against 2.4.0-test11-pre2, that I wanted to forward
> to the lists for comment.
>
> Many of the ethernet drivers have timer routines, which are
> called every three-five seconds or so. These timer routines
> typically do stuff related to media selection or checking, and call
> mdio_{read,write} to interact with the phy.
>
I think it's useful. More generally, I'd like to have
"process context timers" - the ability to call a function
from process context at a set time. Then a single kernel
thread could handle all things like this. Pretty simple to do.
BTW: can the OOM killer possibly kill a kernel thread?
If it does, yenta_socket_thread() will nuke the machine.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-11-11 0:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-11-10 21:29 Jeff Garzik
2000-11-11 0:48 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2000-11-16 17:59 ` Alan Cox
2000-11-16 18:05 ` Alexander Viro
2000-11-16 18:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-11-16 18:28 ` Jeff Garzik
2000-11-16 18:19 ` Alan Cox
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