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Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 18:03:22 -0600 From: Robert Hancock <hancockr@...w.ca> To: Phillip Susi <psusi@....rr.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com>, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>, Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>, noah <noah123@...il.com>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-ide@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: Possibly SATA related freeze killed networking and RAID Phillip Susi wrote: > Tejun Heo wrote: >> Agreed. Nobody cared on ATA controllers is usually very effective at >> taking the whole machine down. Is there any reason why we don't turn on >> irqpoll on turned off IRQs automatically? > > Why does a single spurious interrupt cause it to be shut down? I can > see if the interrupt is stuck on and keeps interrupting constantly, but > if it's just the occasional spurious interrupt, why not just ignore it > and move on? I'm not certain offhand, but I think there may be such a threshold. However, an occasional spurious interrupt isn't likely. For a level-triggered interrupt, an unhandled interrupt will keep interrupting forever since nobody knows how to clear it (until we decide to disable the IRQ entirely). -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from hancockr@...pamshaw.ca Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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