> This needs some documentation for where it is useful. Do you > want this > to avoid interrupts under high loads or for something else? Yes - we've been asked to support this mode so that a heavily loaded system can claim back some cpu cycles spent on interrupt processing. (SPC benchmarks being a prime example) We'll recut this patch with some additional text and to address the comments. -- james - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html