Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 4 Jun 2003 00:53:02 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: another must-fix: major PS/2 mouse problem |
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Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@ucw.cz> wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 11:21:55PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > We believe that it may be due to the ethernet driver holding interrupts off > > for too long when the traffic is heavy. > > Note that this doesn't necessarily mean that the ethernet driver > disables the interrupts for a too long time, it just means that the > computer is only servicing the network interrupts at that time, and > since the mouse interrupt does have a lower priority, it's serviced > not very often and with huge delays. > > In such a case the network driver should either use interrupt mitigation > if the cards supports it (reading many packets per one interrupt) or > switch to a polled mode.
Has this problem been observed in 2.4 kernels?
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