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Date:      Wed, 25 Oct 1995 06:52:22 +1000
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        bde@zeta.org.au, dennis@etinc.com
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Async utilization.....
Message-ID:  <199510242052.GAA32111@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>>>Figure out the processing requirement for handling one average frame size of 
>>> bytes with a 16450 with 8-bit I/O cycles and loads of interrupts, add 20%
>>>and compare 

>> [finally enough data to overwhelm Dennis :-)]

>>>it  to a single interrupt and one 16-bit bus transfer per frame. It doesn't
>>>take a rocket scientist 
>>>to know there's a signficant difference in processing requirements.
>>
>>The factor tends to get reduced a lot by non-data i/o's and protocol
>>protocol processing.

>This is way too much to have to figure out.....I was talking much more
>philosophically......

Yes, I usually just count the i/o accesses and interrupts myself.

Bruce



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