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Date:      Thu, 23 Jun 2005 18:28:25 -0400
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Cc:        Emanuel Strobl <Emanuel.strobl@gmx.net>, Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org>, Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>, Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
Subject:   Re: lapic@2k interrukts eating CPU cycles
Message-ID:  <200506231828.27226.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050622150842.GF791@empiric.icir.org>
References:  <200506091423.39940@harrymail> <20050622154538.H26664@fledge.watson.org> <20050622150842.GF791@empiric.icir.org>

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On Wednesday 22 June 2005 11:08 am, Bruce M Simpson wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 03:50:24PM +0100, Robert Watson wrote:
> > I have a feature request in to John to add statistics gathering on IPIs,
> > since he's currently reworking the interrupt paths.
>
> I like this LAPIC change a lot. Actually I like APICs a lot. They may not
> give you 'real' vectored hardware interrupts a la SPARC and PowerPC, but
> at least it comes a bit closer.
>
> It would be nice to be doing APIC on uniprocessor systems a bit further
> down the line, but that's for the wishlist -- the 8259s are not going away
> just yet.

I think all new systems going forward are going to have APICs though.  HTT and 
multi core require APIC just like SMP does.

-- 
John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>  <><  http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
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