On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 16:56 -0700, David Miller wrote: > From: Theodore Tso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 19:53:26 -0400 > > > Any suggestions on how I could figure out what was really going on and > > what would be a better fix would be greatly appreciated. > > As Michael explained, it's the ASF heartbeat sent by tg3_timer() that > must be delivered to the chip within certain timing constraints. > > If you had any watchdog devices on this machine, they would likely > trigger too and reset your machine :)
That's not broken behavior in RT .. That's just plain old task priorities. Some high priority task (SCHED_FIFO prio 99) is sucking up a lot of the CPU. But that's 100% legal in SCHED_FIFO. Daniel - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
