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Date:      Wed, 17 May 1995 15:21:43 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
To:        phk@ref.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp)
Cc:        esser@ZPR.Uni-Koeln.DE, bde@zeta.org.au, current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Enthusiasm boost: make world works on 386SX16 4Mb
Message-ID:  <199505172221.PAA12762@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
In-Reply-To: <199505172217.PAA26749@ref.tfs.com> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at May 17, 95 03:17:33 pm

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> 
> > On May 18,  7:12, Bruce Evans wrote:
> > } Subject: Re: Enthusiasm boost: make world works on 386SX16 4Mb
> > } >The problem is, that the current interrupt statistics scheme is 
> > } >tightly bound to ISA.
> > } 
> > } >The register_intr() function gets a device_id, which is used to 
> > } >initialise the intr_countp[] and intrnames[] arrays.
> > } 
> > } Urk.  You currently use device_id 0, so all pci interrupts get
> > } counted as clock interrupts.
> > 
> > Well, this particular line is Wolfgang's code, not mine :)
> > 
> > Yes. I noticed the same when I looked for a way to tally 
> > PCI interrupts ...
> 
> I can't belive that we found a serious statistical problem in the PCI
> code by running make world on a 386SX :-)

I've known about the statistical bug for over 2 months, and knew that
it was counting them on the clock interrupt.



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Rod Grimes                                      rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com
Accurate Automation Company                   Custom computers for FreeBSD



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