Ticket #2 (new enhancement)

Opened 3 years ago

Last modified 3 years ago

IRQs can theoretically starve

Reported by: jermar Owned by: jermar
Priority: minor Milestone:
Component: helenos/kernel/generic Version: mainline
Keywords: Cc:
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Description

With the new IRQ dispatcher, it is possible that a device generating lots of interrupts will starve other devices sharing the same collision chain. The solution is to rotate the IRQ structures in the dispatcher's hash table so that some kind of round robin within the collision chain is enforced.

Change History

comment:1 Changed 3 years ago by svoboda

  • Component set to kernel/generic
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