Messages in this thread |  | | From | kuznet@ms2 ... | Subject | Re: [announce] [patch] limiting IRQ load, irq-rewrite-2.4.11-B5 | Date | Wed, 3 Oct 2001 20:53:58 +0400 (MSK DST) |
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Hello!
> In a generic computing environment i want to spend cycles doing useful > work, not polling.
Ingo, "polling" is wrong name. It does not poll. :-) Actually, this misnomer is the worst thing whic I worried about.
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.
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