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

Ingo Molnar
2001-10-03T08:49:54Z

On 2 Oct 2001, Marcus Sundberg wrote:

> Guess my P3-based laptop doesn't count as modern then:
>
> 0: 7602983 XT-PIC timer
> 1: 10575 XT-PIC keyboard
> 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
> 8: 1 XT-PIC rtc
> 11: 1626004 XT-PIC Toshiba America Info Systems ToPIC95 PCI to
> Cardbus Bridge with ZV Support, Toshiba America Info Systems ToPIC95
> PCI to Cardbus Bridge with ZV Support (#2), usb-uhci, eth0, BreezeCom
> Card, Intel 440MX, irda0

ugh!

> I can't even imagine why they did it like this...

well, you arent going to be using it as a webserver i guess? :) But the
costs on desktops are minimal. It's the high-irq-rate server environments
that want separate irq sources.

Ingo