Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 2 Oct 2001 22:51:34 +0200 (CEST) | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [announce] [patch] limiting IRQ load, irq-rewrite-2.4.11-B5 |
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On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
> What you really care about is limiting the total amount of CPU time > used for interrupt processing so that usermode progress is made. > [...]
exactly. The estimator in -D9 tries to achieve precisely this, both hardirqs and softirqs are measured.
> Silencing a specific target cannot be done by IRQ masking, you have to > ask the controller to shut up. It may be the default "shut up" handler > is disable_irq but that is non optimal.
this could be done later on, but i think this is out of question for 2.4, as it needs extensive changes in irq handler and network driver API.
Ingo
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