Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 11:39:24 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Interrupt latency (was Re: Mutex types. ) Message-ID: <200012061939.eB6JdOF37209@mass.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 06 Dec 2000 17:56:13 %2B1100." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0012061713150.5526-100000@besplex.bde.org>
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> ... This
> only works right on machines that have per-interrupt interrupt masking,
> but so does our general interrupt scheme.)
Since most of the machines we're likely to run on for the next few years
*don't* have this feature, I'd say it would make a lot more sense to
spend some effort on devising an interrupt scheme that worked well
without that assumption...
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