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Re: irqtune: improve serial port performance by 3x?



On Sun, 01 Sep 1996 11:12:42 +0300 Linus Torvalds (torvalds@cs.Helsink
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.

Phil.




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