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Date:      Thu, 14 Dec 2000 11:24:50 -0800 (PST)
From:      Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To:        Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
Cc:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>, alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: mutex/ithread jitters?
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.21.0012141124180.28426-100000@zeppo.feral.com>
In-Reply-To: <14905.7357.440285.591097@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>

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> Matthew Jacob writes:
>  > > 
>  > > John Baldwin writes:
>  > >  > 
>  > >  > Sounds like lost interrupts.  Possibly the interrupt isn't being enabled
>  > >  > properly after the ithread finishes running the handler.
>  > > 
>  > > Maybe it is time to accept defeat on squelching interrupts at their source 
>  > > and leave the IPL raised until the handler is run?
>  > 
>  > They may be orthogonal issues. 
> 
> Maybe, but maybe not.  Your 4100's missing interrupts sound similar to
> the missing isa interrupt problems on my UP1000.
> 
> As Doug mentioned before, leaving the ipl raised would probably be
> more efficient that groveling around in the interrupt hardware.  And
> it would be nice to not make every platform have to be 100% perfect
> wrt to enabling/disabling interrupts...

No arguments from me on this one (after all, ahem, I suggested it first!). But
I haven't gotten around to breaking free the day or so it will take to do
this.

-matt




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