On Sat, 28 Jul 2007, Russell King wrote: > Essentially, any complex interrupt handler (such as an IDE interrupt > doing a multi-sector PIO transfer _in interrupt context_) can cause this > kind of starvation. That's why Linux 1.x had bottom halves - so that > the time consuming work could be moved out of the interrupt handler, > thereby causing minimal the blockage of other interrupts. > > Unfortunately, that kind of design has been long since forgotten. > Apparantly modern machines are fast enough that it doesn't have to be > worried about anymore... Or are they?
I would guess it is not that the machines are fast enough, but that this two-level processing makes things more complicated. Enough that most people would not bother digging into it unless really forced. Only occasional latency problems are probably not enough of a force. Maciej - 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/
