Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 10 Oct 2001 16:26:52 +0000 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [announce] [patch] limiting IRQ load, irq-rewrite-2.4.11-B5 |
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Hi!
> > Agreed if you add the polling cardbus bit. > > Note polling cardbus would require more changes than the above. > > I don't think it does. There are two pieces to the problem > > a) Not dying horribly > b) Handling it elegantly > > b) is driver specific (NAPI etc) and I think well understood to the point > its being used already for performance reasons > > a) is as simple as > > if(stuck_in_irq(foo) && irq_shared(foo)) > { > disable_real_irq(foo); > timer_fake_irq_foo(); > }
I'd kill irq_shared() test, and added a printk :-). Pavel -- Philips Velo 1: 1"x4"x8", 300gram, 60, 12MB, 40bogomips, linux, mutt, details at http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/velo/index.html.
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