Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 3 Oct 2001 15:03:55 -0400 | From | Benjamin LaHaise <> | Subject | Re: [announce] [patch] limiting IRQ load, irq-rewrite-2.4.11-B5 |
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On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 08:53:58PM +0400, kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru wrote: > Citing my old explanation: > > >"Polling" is not a real polling in fact, it just accepts irqs as > >events waking rx softirq with blocking subsequent irqs. > >Actual receive happens at softirq. > > > >Seems, this approach solves the worst half of livelock problem completely: > >irqs are throttled and tuned to load automatically. > >Well, and drivers become cleaner.
Well, this sounds like a 2.5 patch. When do we get to merge it?
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