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Date:      Tue, 21 Mar 95 9:38:31 MST
From:      terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert)
To:        bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans)
Cc:        bde@zeta.org.au, current@FreeBSD.org, se@MI.Uni-Koeln.DE
Subject:   Re: Sharing interrupts with PCI devices?
Message-ID:  <9503211638.AA06839@cs.weber.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199503211525.BAA19070@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Mar 22, 95 01:25:09 am

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> One or two here, one or two there ...  I'm
> looking at a cyclades intelligent serial
> board and driver that is 25% slower than
> an unintelligent 16450 board and 3 times
> slower than an unintelligent 16550 board.
> Perhaps it would be faster if cycles weren't
> wasted here and there.

[ ... ]

> I think there should be separate interrupt
> registration and dispatch, etc. for different
> classes of interrupts.  I can save a few usec
> in the ISA handlers if they spec'ed to not
> support level triggered interrupts.

I agree with Bruce, but then I'm a computational nanosecond
kinda guy from my Commodore 64 raster interrupt days...


					Terry Lambert
					terry@cs.weber.edu
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