Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 22:54:35 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: dfr@nlsystems.com (Doug Rabson) Cc: dima@best.net, simokawa@sat.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vmstat -i Message-ID: <199811272254.PAA22214@usr02.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9811272112450.21711-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> from "Doug Rabson" at Nov 27, 98 09:17:32 pm
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> > Well, the actuall question is - do we want to adopt netbsd's method > > of tracking interrupts (bogus) or we want to come up with something > > decent on our own. > > I'm not too keen on this interrupt counting mechanism but it is at least > simple. I would probably pass the address of a struct evcnt to > alpha_setup_intr() instead of wrapping the handler with pci_handle_intr(). > The generic code would handle incrementing the counter. > > I don't have a lot of enthusiasm for developing an alternative so unless > anyone else is going to step up and write something cool, I will take this > patch (and tweak alpha_setup_intr() to simplify it). I would prefer that someone fix the NetBSD version and submit it back to NetBSD, get it adopted, and then bring it into FreeBSD. It would better keep the platforms in sync than the "NIH" method. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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