Re: linux interrupt handling problem

Roman Zippel (zippel@fh-brandenburg.de)
Wed, 10 Nov 1999 11:38:34 +0100 (MET)


Hi,

On 10 Nov 1999, Jes Sorensen wrote:

> Roman> Another reason is that the driver writer had to decide how
> Roman> "important" his driver is and set the SA_INTERRUPT for this. As
> Roman> soon as you want to get more than one driver working properly
> Roman> together, you get problem with this system.
>
> Rubbish, the current case we are talking about is serial performance
> vs the rest of the system. Run the serial as high priority and the
> rest as slow - you don't need this for mouse, disk, ethernet etc.

This only true for standard user systems, not e.g. for embedded systems...
You can of course ignore these problems others can't.

bye, Roman

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