Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 8 Oct 2001 11:09:57 -0400 (EDT) | From | jamal <> | 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:
> NAPI is important - the irq disable tactic is a last resort. If the right > hardware is irq flood aware it should only ever trigger to save us from > irq routing errors (eg cardbus hangs)
Agreed. As long as the IRQ flood protector can do proper isolation. Here's hat i see on my dell latitude laptop with a built in ethernet (not cardbus related ;->)
------------------------------- [root@jzny /root]# cat /proc/interrupts CPU0 0: 29408219 XT-PIC timer 1: 332192 XT-PIC keyboard 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 10: 643040 XT-PIC Texas Instruments PCI1410 PC card Cardbus Controller, eth0 11: 17 XT-PIC usb-uhci 12: 2207062 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse 14: 307504 XT-PIC ide0 NMI: 0 LOC: 0 ERR: 0 MIS: 0 -----------------------------
cheers, jamal
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