I'd like to run a long loop with a minimum of interrupts, specifically
without any scheduler or timer interrupts, the introduced jitter is
noticeable.
Is this possible in FreeBSD 7? If so how should I proceed? I can
take as long as I need after the loop has completed to restore/
reinitialize any necessary state.
I do want to be able to process other interrupts to handle page faults
and the like.
I'm working on dual core dual processor amd opteron setups right now
and would like to support the intel family processors as well.
It seems that what I want to do is to disable/mask acpi timer
interrupts for the processor but trying to read the 0xfee00320
register (lvt_timer) causes a panic.
Alternatively, I could hook in the timer handler to return immediately
when a flag is set, though this still might introduce more jitter than
I'd like.
Thanks,
John Giacomoni
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University of Colorado at Boulder
Department of Computer Science
Engineering Center, ECCR 1B50
430 UCB
Boulder, CO 80303-0430
USA
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