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Date:      Tue, 1 Jul 2003 22:08:13 -0700
From:      Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>
To:        sparc64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: OFW_NEWPCI dmesg diffs
Message-ID:  <20030702050813.GA11423@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net>
In-Reply-To: <20030702040928.GC58048@funkthat.com>
References:  <20030702040139.GA11199@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> <20030702040928.GC58048@funkthat.com>

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On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 09:09:28PM -0700, John-Mark Gurney wrote:
> 
> But, I the problem is that both soft interrupts and vector interrupts
> are useful to know.  All vector interrupts are dispatched via soft
> interrupts, so if we count both, the interrupt count is double.  We
> need soft interrupts if we want to see the clock ticking.
*snip*
> notice that ithrd is equal to gem0 + gem1 + atapci0.  pil is the
> priority interrupt level (aka soft interrupts).
> 
> Comments?  Do we count both? or not include soft interrupts? or not
> include the ithrd pil?

I don't know enough about sparc, but can't you count clock interrupts
in tick_hardclock() and not count soft interrupts at all?

-- 
 Marcel Moolenaar	  USPA: A-39004		 marcel@xcllnt.net



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