On Tue, 3 Sep 1996, Philippe Troin wrote: > > On Sun, 01 Sep 1996 11:12:42 +0300 Linus Torvalds ([EMAIL PROTECTED] > i.FI) wrote: > > > In my never-ending battle to make the kernel behave well by default without > > needing "irqtune" (which is very setup-specific, and as such not something > > the kernel can do automatically), I was thinking of doing interrupt priority > > rotations instead of the current fixed mode. > > Just to tell you that this patch gave me the same effect as irqtune did > before: full serial speed. Actually, I applied the 2.0.17 patch which > contained this small patch. > > I'm glad this thing's in the kernel now.
I have one report of a hung kernel at bogomips time, which seems to indicate that the priority rotations do not work at all with certain chipsets (probably a buggy interrupt controller). I may have to revert to the non-rotating version after all. Damn. Linus