On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 09:02:35AM +0100, Massimo Lusetti wrote: > On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 16:15 -0700, Scott Long wrote: > > > What I've done is vacated the use of irq16 on my machines by disabling > > things like usb and if_em. This isn't ideal, of course. The storming > > doesn't usually cause a problem, but it can affect performance, > > especially if USB is involved. I only do this when I'm testing > > performance, otherwise I leave everything enabled and don't worry about > > it. 4.x won't see this problem since it handles interrupts in the > > more traditional way, but using 4.x also has many other tradeoffs that > > may or may not be worthwhile. > > That's good to hear. Thanks for pointing it out Scott. As I mentioned in another reply, I do see a similar interrupt storm on the same hardware running 4.11. Kris
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