From owner-freebsd-current Mon Oct 8 22:26: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (mass.dis.org [216.240.45.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BF9637B401 for ; Mon, 8 Oct 2001 22:25:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.6/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f995aKU08231; Mon, 8 Oct 2001 22:36:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200110090536.f995aKU08231@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: "Kenneth D. Merry" , Terry Lambert , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why do soft interrupt coelescing? In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 09 Oct 2001 00:18:57 CDT." <20011009001857.R59854@elvis.mu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2001 22:36:20 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > * Kenneth D. Merry [011009 00:11] wrote: > > > > As you say above, this is actually a good thing. I don't see how this ties > > into the patch to introduce some sort of interrupt coalescing into the > > ti(4) driver. IMO, you should be able to tweak the coalescing parameters > > on the board to do what you want. > > No matter how hard you tweak the board, an interrupt may still > trigger while you process a hardware interrupt, this causes an > additional poll which can cause additional coalescing. I don't think I understand what sort of crack you are smoking. If an interrupt-worthy condition is asserted on the board, you aren't going to leave your typical interrupt handler anyway; this sort of coalescing already happens without any "help". -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message