"Expensive timeout(9) function..."

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <20030401095201.O1612 at odysseus.silby.com>, Mike Silbersack writes:
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>On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Yar Tikhiy wrote:
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>> Thanks for your explanation!
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>> I hope this little thread will draw the attention of the
>> responsible or interested parties to the warnings ;-)
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>> --
>> Yar
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>The _tick routines are not easy to fix, FWIW.  MII access functions are
>quite time consuming almost any way you look at it.

I'm not sure the _tick functions should even be called from a timeout().

In many ways it seems preferable to me to have then run sequentially
from a single thread, possibly via a task-queue.

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