From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon Oct 30 10: 7:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from pike.osd.bsdi.com (pike.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB33437B479 for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 10:07:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (ether.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.196]) by pike.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e9UI6qf74828; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 10:06:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <14844.20818.779470.967531@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 10:07:48 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: Andrew Gallatin Subject: Re: Testers please.. Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 -- 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