Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2001 02:01:20 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: tlambert2@mindspring.com Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Allocate a page at interrupt time Message-ID: <200108080901.f7891KZ01287@mass.dis.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 07 Aug 2001 11:15:05 PDT." <3B703029.2BB6D25A@mindspring.com>
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> Matt Dillon wrote:
> > :What "this", exactly?
> > :
> > :That "virtual wire" mode is actually a bad idea for some
> > :applications -- specifically, high speed networking with
> > :multiple gigabit ethernet cards?
> >
> > All the cpu's don't get the interrupt, only one does.
>
> I think that you will end up taking an IPI (Inter Processor
> Interrupt) to shoot down the cache line during an invalidate
> cycle, when moving an interrupt processing thread from one
> CPU to another.
Terry; all this "thinking" you're doing is *really*bad*.
I appreciate that you believe you're trying to "educate" us somehow. But
what you're really doing right now is filling our list archives with
convincing-sounding crap. People that are curious about this issue are
likely to turn up your postings, and get *really* confused.
Please. Just stop, ok?
--
... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his
rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want
to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force
people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt]
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