Re: [announce] [patch] limiting IRQ load, irq-rewrite-2.4.11-B5

[jamal]

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