Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 10:07:48 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Testers please.. Message-ID: <XFMail.001030100748.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <14844.20818.779470.967531@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
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On 29-Oct-00 Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > John Baldwin writes: > > - I didn't actually pass the new-bus interrupt handler flags down > > into alpha_platform_setup_intr(), so the MPSAFE flag would never > > actually be set in the intrhand structures. > > - Partly as a result of the above, I didn't enforce exclusiveness > > of interrupt vectors for INTR_EXCL interrupts. > > What would the impact of this be on non-SMP systems, if any? Fast interrupts (such as sio) should have a much smaller latency as they are now run directly rather than waiting until their thread is scheduled to run. > > The patch at http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/patches/alpha.fast.patch > > should fix all this, but I don't have a workign sio to test it on, > > so I would appreciate some testing and feedback. Thanks. > > I'm now running it on my home miata, also w/o using sio, but it > doesn't seem any less stable than it was.. Ok... > Drew -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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