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Date:      Mon, 02 Feb 2009 13:45:13 +0200
From:      Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua>
To:        Paolo Pisati <p.pisati@oltrelinux.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: INTR_FILTER?
Message-ID:  <4986DCC9.8080500@icyb.net.ua>
In-Reply-To: <4982FBC7.1080100@oltrelinux.com>
References:  <49819757.2010002@icyb.net.ua> <4982FBC7.1080100@oltrelinux.com>

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on 30/01/2009 15:08 Paolo Pisati said the following:
> Andriy Gapon wrote:
>> INTR_FILTER - what does it do?
>> It doesn't seem to be documented anywhere, but seems to affect interrupt
>> code.
>>
>>   
> for a bit more information about interrupt filtering, see here:
> 
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2007-February/019704.html

Paolo,

so would it be correct to say that INTR_FILTER is designed to make life
much easier in view of shared interrupts.
>From the code it seems that there would be virtually no difference when
there are no shared interrupt, but with shared interrupts INTR_FILTER
removes all the churn and makes interrupt handling nice and clean (from
device drivers point of view).



-- 
Andriy Gapon



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