Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 03 Oct 2001 23:50:09 -0700 | From | Ben Greear <> | Subject | Re: [announce] [patch] limiting IRQ load, irq-rewrite-2.4.11-B5 |
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jamal wrote:
> Your patch with Linus' idea of "flag mask" would be more acceptable as a > last resort. All subsytems should be cooperative and we resort to this to > send misbehaving kids to their room.
That requires re-writing all the drivers, right? Seems a very bad thing to do in 2.4
> > > Your NAPI patch, or any driver/subsystem that does flowcontrol accurately > > should never be affected by it in any way. No overhead, no performance > > hit. > > so far your appraoch is that of a shotgun i.e "let me fire in > that crowd and i'll hit my target but dont care if i take down a few > more"; regardless of how noble the reasoning is, it's as Linus described > it -- a sledge hammer.
Aye, but by shooting this target and getting a few bystanders, you save everyone else... (And it's only a flesh wound!!)
Ben
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