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From: Nathan Bryant <nbryant@optonline.net>
To: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386 reduce spurious interrupt noise
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 16:13:42 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <41377EF6.4010902@optonline.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040902194739.GA6673@taniwha.stupidest.org>

Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 12:34:54PM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> 
> 
>>Please check printk_ratelimit().
> 
> 
> I don't want them displayed by default at *all* --- it wakes up the
> monitor on console machines and that's annoying.
> 
> You get about 1 or 2 a day --- rate limiting isn't useful, nor is
> reporting them IMO.

Right, spurious interrupts aren't a big deal on i386. They happen now 
and then with some devices because some hardware timing tolerances are a 
little too tight. See for example sections 5.7.1.3/5.7.4 of the intel 
850 chipset databook 
(http://developer.intel.com/design/chipsets/datashts/29068702.pdf) :

"6. Upon receiving the second internally generated INTA# pulse, the PIC 
returns the interrupt vector. If no interrupt request is present because 
the request was too short in duration, the PIC will return vector 7 from 
the master controller."

"In both the edge-triggered and level-triggered modes, the IRQ inputs 
must remain active until after the falling edge of the first internal 
INTA#. If the IRQ input goes inactive before this time, a default IRQ7 
vector will be returned."

> 
> 
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-09-02 20:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-02 19:28 [PATCH] i386 reduce spurious interrupt noise Chris Wedgwood
2004-09-02 19:34 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-02 19:47   ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-09-02 19:52     ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-02 19:59       ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-09-02 20:13     ` Nathan Bryant [this message]
2004-09-02 19:27       ` Alan Cox
2004-09-02 20:32         ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-09-10 21:23 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2004-09-10 23:10   ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-09-10 22:21     ` Alan Cox
2004-09-10 23:28       ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-09-11 13:36         ` Alan Cox
2004-09-11  0:14     ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2004-09-11  0:17       ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-09-11  0:33         ` Maciej W. Rozycki

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