Re: Possibly SATA related freeze killed networking and RAID

[Phillip Susi]

Tejun Heo wrote:
> Agreed.  Nobody cared on ATA controllers is usually very effective at
> taking the whole machine down.  Is there any reason why we don't turn on
> irqpoll on turned off IRQs automatically?

Why does a single spurious interrupt cause it to be shut down?  I can 
see if the interrupt is stuck on and keeps interrupting constantly, but 
if it's just the occasional spurious interrupt, why not just ignore it 
and move on?

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