Re: [PATCH] support for Cobalt Networks (x86 only) systems (forrealthis

[Bogdan Costescu <bogdan.costescu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 2 Jun 2001, jamal wrote:

> Still, the tx watchdogs are a good source of fault detection in the case
> of non-availabilty of MII detection and even with the presence of MII.

Agreed. But my question was a bit different: is there any legit situation
where Tx timeouts can happen in a row _without_ having a link loss ? In
this situation, we'd have false positives...

> "Dynamic" in the above sense means trying to totaly avoid making it a
> synchronous poll. The poll rate is a function of how many packets go out
> that device per average measurement time. Basically, the period that the
> user space app dumps "hello" netlink packets to the kernel is a variable.

Sounds nice, but could this be implemented light enough ?

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