On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 02:17:37AM +0530, murthy kn wrote:
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> I have a couple of questions.
>
> 1. What will happen if a packet some packets arrive DURING the
> current call to XXX_intr() - are they processed by the
> current invocation of XXX_intr() itself without generating a new interrupt
Hi,
First, let me thank for the nice detailed description
of polling vs interrupts.
I have a couple of questions.
>
>As the load level increases, your interrupt rate also grows, and
>so does the work that you perform in each call to XX_intr().
>
>The increase in interrupt rate is dangerous
As the topic came out, i thought it would be useful to pass around
a short discussion on the performance implications of interrupts
and polling.
In addition to the code that i already posted and which implements
polling as discussed in Sec.4 below, I have another set of patches
to implement devic
