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To: Steve Passe <smp@csn.net>
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 16:14:44 -0800
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>FYI, I now have an SMC PCI 10B2 card running in the SMP kernel and
>am seeing NO signs of INTerrupt loss.  This is with the 'de' driver.

   PCI cards have level sensitive interrupts and thus are generally immune to
lost interrupts. A different matter with ISA edge triggered interrupts. If the
interrupt code loses one there, you likely won't get another one until the
device is reset.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project