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Assume that at this setting, the driver can poll 5 datablocks on the device per second. If you
configure 10 datablocks for the device, all 10 try to poll at the same time. In the first second,
the first 5 poll, leaving 6 to 10 to be marked as overrun, as shown in the following figure.
Datablocks 1 to 10
1 second
2 seconds
3 seconds
4 seconds
Sent to process hardware
Sent to process hardware
Sent to process hardware
Sent to process hardware
Discarded and
marked as overruns
Discarded and
marked as overruns
Discarded and
marked as overruns
Placed in the read queue
Placed in the read queue
Placed in the read queue
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