Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 07:44:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 07:44:19 -0400 Received: from shell.cyberus.ca ([209.195.95.7]:39097 "EHLO shell.cyberus.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 07:44:01 -0400 Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 07:41:39 -0400 (EDT) From: jamal To: Ingo Molnar cc: Alexey Kuznetsov , , Robert Olsson , , , Linus Torvalds , Alan Cox Subject: Re: [announce] [patch] limiting IRQ load, irq-rewrite-2.4.11-B5 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Ingo Molnar wrote: > i'm asking the following thing. dev->quota, as i read the patch now, can > cause extra calls to ->poll() even though the RX ring of that particular > device is empty and the driver has indicated it's done processing RX > packets. (i'm now assuming that the extra-polling-for-a-jiffy line in the > current patch is removed - that one is a showstopper to begin with.) Is > this claim of mine correct? There should be no extra calls to ->poll() and if there are we should fix them. Take a look at the state machine i posted earlier. The one liner is removed. cheers, jamal - 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/