From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JNjlm-0002An-Eg for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 09 Feb 2008 02:05:02 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JNjll-0002Aa-PH for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 09 Feb 2008 02:05:02 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JNjll-0002AQ-Hh for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 09 Feb 2008 02:05:01 -0500 Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.157]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JNjll-00061y-6W for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 09 Feb 2008 02:05:01 -0500 Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id e12so3206201fga.8 for ; Fri, 08 Feb 2008 23:05:00 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2008 09:04:59 +0200 From: "Blue Swirl" Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: 2.6.24 says "serial8250: too much work for irq4" a lot. In-Reply-To: <200802082349.34301.rob@landley.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200802051455.10831.rob@landley.net> <200802071413.45085.rob@landley.net> <47AB75EB.3040405@zytor.com> <200802082349.34301.rob@landley.net> Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" On 2/9/08, Rob Landley wrote: > Here's a patch Peter Anvin wrote so the serial I/O doesn't flood the kernel. The patch looks OK, but the throttling should benefit all devices, as discussed here: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2007-12/msg00283.html