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Date:      Mon, 10 Dec 2001 22:29:45 -0800
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: irq
Message-ID:  <3C15A7D9.236B2E4E@mindspring.com>
References:  <200112101752.fBAHqMV01179@mass.dis.org>

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Mike Smith wrote:
> Er, you don't seem to understand how PCI interrupts work.
> 
> You must (for now) pass RF_SHAREABLE in; eventually the PCI code will
> stick it there for you anyway.  All PCI interrupts are shareable; you
> can't "ask" for an unshared vector; you get the one you're given, and you
> should be thankful for that much.  Lots of people are going without these
> days. 8(

I've considered the issue of getting network cards onto their
own IRQs, and then handling them on different CPUs, for some
performance sensitive applications.

It's a reasonable thing to want, though the current answer is
"you get what you are assigned, and if you want something else,
then move the cards around until you are happy".

-- Terry

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