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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
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On Mon, 17 May 2010 09:44:47 -0400
Donald Allen <donaldcallen@gmail.com> wrote:

> I will do the experiment suggested by Arjan van de Ven and report the
> results of that separately.


since you're losing interrupts.. another good option to try is "irqpoll"


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