Re: more packets than interrupts

[David S. Miller]

On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 15:46:07 +0000
Francesco Oppedisano <francesco.oppedisano@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Can every driver manage many packets per call?

Most can.  If more packets arrive between between when the chip
signals the interrupt and the cpu actually gets to the driver
interrupt handler, multiple packets per interrupt can easily happen.
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