Avi Kivity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I don't understand why interrupt latency suffers. Sure, the interrupt that's > being masked is delayed, but on the other hand the interrupt that's doing the > masking is not. We're moving the latency from the first interrupt to the > second, probably with a slight gain in overall throughput. > > It *does* matter if the interrupts have meaningful priorities. Is that the > case > here?
No. I'll queue this in my irq things to think about... Eric - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
