On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 11:12:24AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > You probably want preemption on to minimize latency. i'm doing preemption now... > If this is a > UP machine, you should turn SMP off. It might be interesting to > compare using 7.x without APIC as well, since you are not using > APIC on 4.x. ok, and what do we expect from it? besides interrupt masking/eoi, what are the other areas influenced by apic<->8259 switch? moreover, should i profile the asm part too? APIC 8259 | | | | ISR_VEC() INTR() | | | | we don't take any measure ========================================== <= above this threshold... lapic_handle_intr() atpic_handle_intr() \ / \ / intr_execute_handlers() | | . . . -- Paolo "le influenze esterne sono troppe, il mondo reale non e' mica quello fatato dei komunisti :-p" - Anonymous LumbardReceived on Thu Mar 23 2006 - 16:50:42 UTC
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