Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268767AbUIBUAR (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Sep 2004 16:00:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268261AbUIBUAQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Sep 2004 16:00:16 -0400 Received: from pimout1-ext.prodigy.net ([207.115.63.77]:29436 "EHLO pimout1-ext.prodigy.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268860AbUIBT7h (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Sep 2004 15:59:37 -0400 Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 12:59:28 -0700 From: Chris Wedgwood To: William Lee Irwin III , LKML , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386 reduce spurious interrupt noise Message-ID: <20040902195928.GA6834@taniwha.stupidest.org> References: <20040902192820.GA6427@taniwha.stupidest.org> <20040902193454.GI5492@holomorphy.com> <20040902194739.GA6673@taniwha.stupidest.org> <20040902195219.GJ5492@holomorphy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040902195219.GJ5492@holomorphy.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 690 Lines: 18 On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 12:52:19PM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > That's okay. The reason why is that this is in response to an > external stimulus which can, in principle, scream out of control, so > even at KERN_DEBUG or other loglevels it's meaningful to rate limit > it. If you have enough to be a problem something is wrong and you're dead already. For such cases a more generic interrupt throttling approach is required. --cw - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/