Re: About a shortcoming of the verbs API

Bart Van Assche
2010-08-08T18:16:55Z

On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 3:38 AM, Jason Gunthorpe
<jgunthorpe-ePGOBjL8dl3ta4EC/59zMFaTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> [ ... ]
>
> No, all hardware pretty much works like this. The general flow is:
>
> IRQ happens
>  (if level triggered 'ack' the IRQ to the HW, to suppress the level)
> SW processes
> SW 'does something' to the HW to cause new IRQs to happen
> IRQ happens.. repeat..
>
> [ ... ]

You might have missed or forgotten the point that was made in the
first message of this thread.

Bart.