Re: Kexec, DMA, and SMP

Werner Almesberger (wa@almesberger.net)
Fri, 14 Feb 2003 00:13:10 -0300

Corey Minyard wrote:
> Another thought. If you add a delay with all other processors and
> interrupts off, the disk devices
> will run out of things to do.

But the network will be there, patiently waiting for its chance to
strike. Likewise, I guess: USB (e.g. move the mouse at the wrong
moment to crash the system).

- Werner

-- 
  _________________________________________________________________________
 / Werner Almesberger, Buenos Aires, Argentina         wa@almesberger.net /
/_http://www.almesberger.net/____________________________________________/
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/