> Hardware-interrupts during kernel are actually fairly common under > network-intensive loads, even outside of idle (but idle is admittedly > likely *the* most common one). Many network loads are fairly > kernel-intensive.
For network workloads we can arbitarily coalesce interrupts or just use NAPI to lower the costs. No need to optimize network interrupts too much. -Andi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
