Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261557AbVDSSet (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Apr 2005 14:34:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261570AbVDSSet (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Apr 2005 14:34:49 -0400 Received: from dsl027-180-174.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([216.27.180.174]:22672 "EHLO cheetah.davemloft.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261554AbVDSSen (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Apr 2005 14:34:43 -0400 Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 11:28:35 -0700 From: "David S. Miller" To: Francesco Oppedisano Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: more packets than interrupts Message-Id: <20050419112835.5efd4132.davem@davemloft.net> In-Reply-To: <875fe4a505041908466117acf4@mail.gmail.com> References: <875fe4a505041908466117acf4@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; sparc-unknown-linux-gnu) X-Face: "_;p5u5aPsO,_Vsx"^v-pEq09'CU4&Dc1$fQExov$62l60cgCc%FnIwD=.UF^a>?5'9Kn[;433QFVV9M..2eN.@4ZWPGbdi<=?[:T>y?SD(R*-3It"Vj:)"dP Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 585 Lines: 12 On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 15:46:07 +0000 Francesco Oppedisano wrote: > Can every driver manage many packets per call? Most can. If more packets arrive between between when the chip signals the interrupt and the cpu actually gets to the driver interrupt handler, multiple packets per interrupt can easily happen. - 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/