Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 3 Oct 2001 15:04:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 3 Oct 2001 15:03:59 -0400 Received: from host154.207-175-42.redhat.com ([207.175.42.154]:62999 "EHLO lacrosse.corp.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 3 Oct 2001 15:03:46 -0400 Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 15:03:55 -0400 From: Benjamin LaHaise To: kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru Cc: mingo@elte.hu, hadi@cyberus.ca, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Robert.Olsson@data.slu.se, netdev@oss.sgi.com, torvalds@transmeta.com, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk Subject: Re: [announce] [patch] limiting IRQ load, irq-rewrite-2.4.11-B5 Message-ID: <20011003150355.A3780@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <200110031653.UAA13938@ms2.inr.ac.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200110031653.UAA13938@ms2.inr.ac.ru>; from kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru on Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 08:53:58PM +0400 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 08:53:58PM +0400, kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru wrote: > Citing my old explanation: > > >"Polling" is not a real polling in fact, it just accepts irqs as > >events waking rx softirq with blocking subsequent irqs. > >Actual receive happens at softirq. > > > >Seems, this approach solves the worst half of livelock problem completely: > >irqs are throttled and tuned to load automatically. > >Well, and drivers become cleaner. Well, this sounds like a 2.5 patch. When do we get to merge it? -ben - 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/