Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 8 Oct 2001 11:23:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 8 Oct 2001 11:23:15 -0400 Received: from [216.191.240.114] ([216.191.240.114]:36485 "EHLO shell.cyberus.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 8 Oct 2001 11:23:04 -0400 Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 11:20:32 -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: > It doesnt save you from horrible performance. NAPI is there to do that, it > saves you from a dead box. You can at least rmmod the cardbus controller > with protection in place (or go looking for the problem with a debugger) I hear you, but I think isolation is important; If i am telneted (literal example here) onto that machine (note eth0 is not cardbus based) and cardbus is causing the loops then iam screwed. [The same applies to everything that shares interupts] 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/