Hi Anish, > Certain watchdog drivers use a timer to keep kicking the watchdog at > a rate of 0.5s (HZ/2) untill userspace times out.They do this as > we can't guarantee that watchdog will be pinged fast enough > for all system loads, especially if timeout is configured for > less than or equal to 1 second(basically small values). > > As suggested by Wim Van Sebroeck & Guenter Roeck we should > add this functionality of individual watchdog drivers in the core > watchdog core. Have you considered the effect this change has on all watchdog drivers that don't need a timer? Kind regards, Wim. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-watchdog" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
