29 Apr
2008
29 Apr
'08
3:47 p.m.
Dear Kumar,
in message DD1539F4-3992-4D8E-92D1-8C53826FDB06@kernel.crashing.org you wrote:
Some boards (e.g. lwmon5) need rather a frequent watch-dog kicking. Since the time it takes for the flush_cache() function to complete its job depends on the size of data being flushed, one may encounter watch-dog resets on such boards when, for example, download big files over ethernet.
is this because the size argument being passed to flush_cache is well beyond the size of the cache itself?
Yes - the thing is that after a TFTP download flush_cache() is called for the size of the downloaded filr; this may be 8 or 32 MiB or more ;-)
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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