Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269046AbUIBUdd (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Sep 2004 16:33:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268963AbUIBUa1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Sep 2004 16:30:27 -0400 Received: from the-village.bc.nu ([81.2.110.252]:28561 "EHLO localhost.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269038AbUIBU3w (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Sep 2004 16:29:52 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386 reduce spurious interrupt noise From: Alan Cox To: Nathan Bryant Cc: Chris Wedgwood , William Lee Irwin III , LKML , Linus Torvalds In-Reply-To: <41377EF6.4010902@optonline.net> References: <20040902192820.GA6427@taniwha.stupidest.org> <20040902193454.GI5492@holomorphy.com> <20040902194739.GA6673@taniwha.stupidest.org> <41377EF6.4010902@optonline.net> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1094153248.5809.41.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 20:27:28 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 632 Lines: 14 On Iau, 2004-09-02 at 21:13, Nathan Bryant wrote: > Right, spurious interrupts aren't a big deal on i386. They happen now > and then with some devices because some hardware timing tolerances are a > little too tight. It also happens on a lot of hardware on the odd instance a non IRQ code path clears down an interrupt just as its being raised. IDE does it now and then for example. - 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/