On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 05:36:34PM -0800, Grover, Andrew wrote:
> Is the assumption that hardirq handlers are superfast also the reason
> why Linux calls all handlers on a shared interrupt, even if the first
> handler reports it was for its device?

I guess so; and in addition it may avoid future irq's in a NAPI like way :)
Or it's just plain dead silly :)