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

[Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxxx>]

Hi!

> > Agreed if you add the polling cardbus bit.
> > Note polling cardbus would require more changes than the above.
> 
> I don't think it does. There are two pieces to the problem
> 
>       a)      Not dying horribly
>       b)      Handling it elegantly
> 
> b) is driver specific (NAPI etc) and I think well understood to the point
> its being used already for performance reasons
> 
> a) is as simple as 
> 
>       if(stuck_in_irq(foo) && irq_shared(foo))
>       {
>               disable_real_irq(foo);
>               timer_fake_irq_foo();
>       }

I'd kill irq_shared() test, and added a printk :-).
                                                                Pavel
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