Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 4 Oct 2001 07:41:39 -0400 (EDT) | From | jamal <> | Subject | Re: [announce] [patch] limiting IRQ load, irq-rewrite-2.4.11-B5 |
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On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> i'm asking the following thing. dev->quota, as i read the patch now, can > cause extra calls to ->poll() even though the RX ring of that particular > device is empty and the driver has indicated it's done processing RX > packets. (i'm now assuming that the extra-polling-for-a-jiffy line in the > current patch is removed - that one is a showstopper to begin with.) Is > this claim of mine correct?
There should be no extra calls to ->poll() and if there are we should fix them. Take a look at the state machine i posted earlier. The one liner is removed.
cheers, jamal
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