Re: interrupt sharing improves performance?
Jaromir Dolecek <[email protected]>
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Jason R Thorpe wrote: > It does require some changes to the network drivers, however, in order for > it to actually work. Right now, NetBSD's network drivers check an interrupt > status register for the device, I thought that ISR is set whenever device wants to interrupt, not when _they_ actually cause the bus interrupt to happen. I.e. that the interrupt status register would be set in this situation. Is that not so? Is this PCI-specific thing? Jaromir -- Jaromir Dolecek <[email protected]> http://www.NetBSD.org/ -=- We should be mindful of the potential goal, but as the tantric -=- -=- Buddhist masters say, ``You may notice during meditation that you -=- -=- sometimes levitate or glow. Do not let this distract you.'' -=-