From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: jamal <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>,
Robert Olsson <Robert.Olsson@data.slu.se>,
Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>,
netdev@oss.sgi.com, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Simon Kirby <sim@netnation.com>
Subject: Re: [announce] [patch] limiting IRQ load, irq-rewrite-2.4.11-B5
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2001 23:50:09 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BBC06A1.1818E45C@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.30.0110031848220.7244-100000@shell.cyberus.ca>
jamal wrote:
> Your patch with Linus' idea of "flag mask" would be more acceptable as a
> last resort. All subsytems should be cooperative and we resort to this to
> send misbehaving kids to their room.
That requires re-writing all the drivers, right? Seems a very bad
thing to do in 2.4
>
> > Your NAPI patch, or any driver/subsystem that does flowcontrol accurately
> > should never be affected by it in any way. No overhead, no performance
> > hit.
>
> so far your appraoch is that of a shotgun i.e "let me fire in
> that crowd and i'll hit my target but dont care if i take down a few
> more"; regardless of how noble the reasoning is, it's as Linus described
> it -- a sledge hammer.
Aye, but by shooting this target and getting a few bystanders, you save
everyone else... (And it's only a flesh wound!!)
Ben
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-04 6:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 151+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-02 0:41 [announce] [patch] limiting IRQ load, irq-rewrite-2.4.11-B5 jamal
2001-10-02 1:04 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2001-10-02 1:54 ` jamal
2001-10-02 5:13 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2001-10-02 5:55 ` Ben Greear
2001-10-02 17:03 ` Robert Olsson
2001-10-02 17:37 ` jamal
2001-10-02 19:46 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-10-03 9:22 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-10-03 14:06 ` David Brownell
2001-10-02 12:10 ` jamal
2001-10-02 22:00 ` jamal
2001-10-03 8:34 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-10-03 9:29 ` Helge Hafting
2001-10-03 12:49 ` jamal
2001-10-03 14:51 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-10-03 15:14 ` jamal
2001-10-03 17:28 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-10-04 0:53 ` jamal
2001-10-04 6:28 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-10-04 11:34 ` jamal
2001-10-04 17:40 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-10-04 18:33 ` jamal
2001-10-04 6:50 ` Ben Greear [this message]
2001-10-04 6:52 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-10-04 11:50 ` jamal
2001-10-04 6:55 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-10-04 6:56 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-10-04 21:28 ` Alex Bligh - linux-kernel
2001-10-04 21:49 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2001-10-04 23:20 ` Alex Bligh - linux-kernel
2001-10-04 23:26 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2001-10-04 23:47 ` Robert Love
2001-10-04 23:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-10-05 0:00 ` Ben Greear
2001-10-05 0:18 ` Davide Libenzi
2001-10-05 2:01 ` jamal
2001-10-04 22:01 ` Simon Kirby
2001-10-04 23:25 ` Alex Bligh - linux-kernel
2001-10-04 23:34 ` Simon Kirby
2001-10-04 22:10 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-04 23:28 ` Alex Bligh - linux-kernel
2001-10-05 15:22 ` Robert Olsson
2001-10-03 9:38 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-10-03 13:03 ` jamal
2001-10-03 13:25 ` jamal
2001-10-03 13:38 ` Robert Olsson
2001-10-04 21:22 ` Alex Bligh - linux-kernel
2001-10-05 14:32 ` Robert Olsson
2001-10-03 15:28 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-10-03 15:56 ` jamal
2001-10-03 16:51 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-10-03 21:08 ` Robert Olsson
2001-10-03 22:22 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-10-04 17:32 ` Davide Libenzi
2001-10-05 14:52 ` Robert Olsson
2001-10-05 18:48 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-10-05 19:07 ` Davide Libenzi
2001-10-05 19:17 ` kuznet
2001-10-07 6:11 ` Robert Olsson
2001-10-08 13:58 ` jamal
2001-10-08 17:42 ` Robert Olsson
2001-10-08 17:39 ` jamal
2001-10-04 0:46 ` jamal
2001-10-08 0:31 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-10-08 4:58 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2001-10-08 15:00 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-08 15:03 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-10-08 15:12 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-08 15:09 ` jamal
2001-10-08 15:22 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-08 15:20 ` jamal
2001-10-08 15:35 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-08 15:57 ` jamal
2001-10-08 16:11 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-08 16:11 ` jamal
2001-10-10 16:26 ` Pavel Machek
2001-10-10 16:25 ` Pavel Machek
2001-10-08 15:24 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-10-08 15:35 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-08 15:19 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-10-08 15:10 ` bill davidsen
2001-10-03 16:53 ` kuznet
2001-10-03 17:06 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-10-04 0:44 ` jamal
2001-10-04 6:35 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-10-04 11:41 ` jamal
2001-10-04 13:05 ` Robert Olsson
2001-10-05 16:42 ` kuznet
2001-10-03 19:03 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2001-10-04 1:10 ` jamal
2001-10-04 1:30 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2001-10-03 22:31 ` Rob Landley
2001-10-04 1:39 ` jamal
2001-10-03 15:42 ` Ben Greear
2001-10-03 15:58 ` jamal
2001-10-03 16:09 ` Ben Greear
2001-10-03 16:14 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-10-03 16:20 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-10-03 16:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-10-03 17:25 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-10-03 18:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-10-03 20:41 ` Jeremy Hansen
2001-10-03 20:02 ` Simon Kirby
2001-10-04 1:04 ` jamal
2001-10-04 6:47 ` Ben Greear
2001-10-04 7:41 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2001-10-04 16:09 ` Ben Greear
2001-10-04 17:32 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2001-10-04 18:03 ` Ben Greear
2001-10-04 18:30 ` Christopher E. Brown
2001-10-04 11:47 ` jamal
2001-10-04 15:56 ` Ben Greear
2001-10-04 18:23 ` jamal
2001-10-04 6:50 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-10-04 11:49 ` jamal
2001-10-04 8:45 ` Simon Kirby
2001-10-04 11:54 ` jamal
2001-10-04 15:03 ` Tim Hockin
2001-10-04 18:55 ` Ion Badulescu
2001-10-04 19:00 ` jamal
2001-10-04 21:16 ` Ion Badulescu
2001-10-04 4:12 ` bill davidsen
2001-10-04 18:16 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-03 8:38 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-10-04 3:50 ` bill davidsen
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-10-08 14:45 jamal
2001-10-09 0:36 ` Scott Laird
2001-10-09 3:17 ` jamal
2001-10-09 4:04 ` Werner Almesberger
2001-10-04 8:25 Magnus Redin
2001-10-04 11:39 ` Trever L. Adams
[not found] <200110031811.f93IBoN10026@penguin.transmeta.com>
2001-10-03 18:23 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-10-04 9:19 ` BALBIR SINGH
2001-10-04 9:22 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-10-04 9:49 ` BALBIR SINGH
2001-10-04 10:25 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-10-07 20:37 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-10-03 14:15 Manfred Spraul
2001-10-03 15:09 ` jamal
2001-10-03 18:37 ` Davide Libenzi
2001-10-01 22:16 Ingo Molnar
2001-10-01 22:26 ` Tim Hockin
2001-10-01 22:50 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-10-01 22:36 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-10-01 22:50 ` Ben Greear
2001-10-02 14:30 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-02 20:51 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-10-01 23:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-10-02 6:50 ` Marcus Sundberg
2001-10-03 8:47 ` Ingo Molnar
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