Re: Kernel preemption, yes or no? (was: Filesystem gets a huge performance boost)

[Alfred Perlstein]

* E.B. Dreger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010417 18:48] wrote:
> > Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 18:28:40 -0700
> > From: Alfred Perlstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > 
> >     1) interrupts are again fan-in, meaning if you block an interrupt
> >     class on one cpu you block them on all cpus
> 
> When would this be a bad case?  i.e., if an interrupt [class] must be
> blocked, would we not it blocked across the board?

It'd be nice if you had something like 16 nic cards working
independantly of each other to not be in the same collision domain
if they don't have to.

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