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Subject: Re: em interrupt storm
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On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 21:52 -0700, Scott Long wrote:

[..]
> and if we don't EOI then we can't get any other interrupts.  This scheme
> works fairly well for typical PC hardware, and these Intel chipsets seem
> to be the exception, albeit a popular one.  One solution that is being
[..]

Yep, the wide spread of this kind of hardware makes this a big issue,
isn't it?

Regards
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