Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 8 Oct 2001 11:13:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 8 Oct 2001 11:12:54 -0400 Received: from [216.191.240.114] ([216.191.240.114]:34181 "EHLO shell.cyberus.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 8 Oct 2001 11:12:46 -0400 Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 11:09:57 -0400 (EDT) From: jamal To: Alan Cox cc: Jeff Garzik , Andrea Arcangeli , Ingo Molnar , Linux-Kernel , , Linus Torvalds 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 Mon, 8 Oct 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > NAPI is important - the irq disable tactic is a last resort. If the right > hardware is irq flood aware it should only ever trigger to save us from > irq routing errors (eg cardbus hangs) Agreed. As long as the IRQ flood protector can do proper isolation. Here's hat i see on my dell latitude laptop with a built in ethernet (not cardbus related ;->) ------------------------------- [root@jzny /root]# cat /proc/interrupts CPU0 0: 29408219 XT-PIC timer 1: 332192 XT-PIC keyboard 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 10: 643040 XT-PIC Texas Instruments PCI1410 PC card Cardbus Controller, eth0 11: 17 XT-PIC usb-uhci 12: 2207062 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse 14: 307504 XT-PIC ide0 NMI: 0 LOC: 0 ERR: 0 MIS: 0 ----------------------------- 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/