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From: Wang Chen <wangchen@cn•fujitsu.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta•com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>, netdev@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pcnet32: round off carrier watch timer
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2009 08:32:47 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <496549AF.3050500@cn.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090107121036.4e16b7cf@extreme>

Stephen Hemminger said the following on 2009-1-8 4:10:
> The link check watchdog timer on this driver fires every two seconds, but
> since not aligned it causes extra wakeups. It is more important on this
> driver than most because it is the hardware that is emulated by default
> when using network interfaces on VMware.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta•com>
> 
> --- a/drivers/net/pcnet32.c	2009-01-07 12:05:54.218712996 -0800
> +++ b/drivers/net/pcnet32.c	2009-01-07 12:06:37.430288101 -0800
> @@ -2282,7 +2282,7 @@ static int pcnet32_open(struct net_devic
>  	if (lp->chip_version >= PCNET32_79C970A) {
>  		/* Print the link status and start the watchdog */
>  		pcnet32_check_media(dev, 1);
> -		mod_timer(&(lp->watchdog_timer), PCNET32_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT);
> +		mod_timer(&lp->watchdog_timer, PCNET32_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT);

should be
+		mod_timer(&lp->watchdog_timer, round_jiffies(PCNET32_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT));
same as that in pcnet32_watchdog()?

>  	}
>  
>  	i = 0;
> @@ -2917,7 +2917,7 @@ static void pcnet32_watchdog(struct net_
>  	pcnet32_check_media(dev, 0);
>  	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&lp->lock, flags);
>  
> -	mod_timer(&(lp->watchdog_timer), PCNET32_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT);
> +	mod_timer(&lp->watchdog_timer, round_jiffies(PCNET32_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT));
>  }
>  
>  static int pcnet32_pm_suspend(struct pci_dev *pdev, pm_message_t state)

  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-08  0:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-07 20:10 [PATCH] pcnet32: round off carrier watch timer Stephen Hemminger
2009-01-08  0:32 ` Wang Chen [this message]
2009-01-08  0:38   ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-01-08 19:17 ` David Miller

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