Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 8 Oct 2001 10:03:57 -0500 (CDT) | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [announce] [patch] limiting IRQ load, irq-rewrite-2.4.11-B5 |
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On Mon, 8 Oct 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > Of course we agree that such a "polling router/firewall" behaviour must > > not be the default but it must be enabled on demand by the admin via > > sysctl or whatever else userspace API. And I don't see any problem with > > that. > > No I don't agree. "Stop random end users crashing my machine at will" is not > a magic sysctl option - its a default.
I think (Ingo's?) analogy of an airbag was appropriate, if that's indeed how the code winds up functioning.
Having a mechanism that prevents what would otherwise be a lockup is useful. NAPI is useful. Having both would be nice :)
Jeff
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