Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762088AbXK2WRF (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:17:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1762978AbXK2WQk (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:16:40 -0500 Received: from iriserv.iradimed.com ([72.242.190.170]:59343 "EHLO iradimed.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1762957AbXK2WQi (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:16:38 -0500 Message-ID: <474F3A4B.3080304@cfl.rr.com> Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:16:43 -0500 From: Phillip Susi User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tejun Heo CC: Pavel Machek , Alan Cox , noah , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Possibly SATA related freeze killed networking and RAID References: <20071120220512.46b9e975@the-village.bc.nu> <20071126120649.GC4701@ucw.cz> <474CCA82.7030000@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <474CCA82.7030000@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 29 Nov 2007 22:16:52.0886 (UTC) FILETIME=[8B701360:01C832D5] X-TM-AS-Product-Ver: SMEX-7.5.0.1243-5.0.1023-15576.001 X-TM-AS-Result: No--4.341400-5.000000-31 X-TM-AS-User-Approved-Sender: No X-TM-AS-User-Blocked-Sender: No Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 683 Lines: 15 Tejun Heo wrote: > Agreed. Nobody cared on ATA controllers is usually very effective at > taking the whole machine down. Is there any reason why we don't turn on > irqpoll on turned off IRQs automatically? Why does a single spurious interrupt cause it to be shut down? I can see if the interrupt is stuck on and keeps interrupting constantly, but if it's just the occasional spurious interrupt, why not just ignore it and move on? - 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/