Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 13:58:53 +1000 (EST) From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.org> Subject: Re: HEADSUP: pca driver being retired. Message-ID: <20030819134824.X86483@gamplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: <2087.1060858934@critter.freebsd.dk>
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On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <200308141017.h7EAHoOI089193@grimreaper.grondar.org>, Mark Murray wr > ites: > > >Would it be a useful exercise for the minority(?) of users who use this > >driver to either see if it can be effectively newbussed or turned into > >a port or both? > > The main problem is the code which hi-jacks the i8254 and kicks off > up to 20000 interrupts per second. What problem is this, except that 20000 interrupts per second is too small for current hardware? Hmm, use of the interrupts has been broken in -current by incompletely turning clkintr() into a fast interrupt handler. pcaintr() is not a fast interrupt handler, but clkintr() just calls it if pca is active. pca uses splhigh() for locking, but splhigh is null in -current and doesn't lock out fast interrupts anyway. If pca were locked by Giant, then the large interrupt latency of Giant would show up as large distortion. Brucehome | help
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