Re: [PATCH] i386 reduce spurious interrupt noise

[Chris Wedgwood]

On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 12:52:19PM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:

> That's okay. The reason why is that this is in response to an
> external stimulus which can, in principle, scream out of control, so
> even at KERN_DEBUG or other loglevels it's meaningful to rate limit
> it.

If you have enough to be a problem something is wrong and you're dead
already.  For such cases a more generic interrupt throttling approach
is required.


  --cw
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