Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1998 20:19:16 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: silo overflows (Was Re: 3.0-RELEASE?) Message-ID: <199803050419.UAA24126@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 05 Mar 1998 15:10:45 %2B1100." <199803050410.PAA32045@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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> >The solution is to use either a SCSI disk system, or support > >busmastering IDE. The real problem is the crazy IRQ priorities of > >the PC architeture. > > The IRQ priorities aren't a significant problem under FreeBSD or Linux. > Both systems essentially ignore them. Whoops, that's right; we effectively ack the interrupt when we take it, not when we finish. Scratch my previous comment inre this. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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