< said:
> I guess that the perfect solution is to be able to hardwire the PCI irqs
> in some way once FreeBSD is doing the PnP resource allocation.
On typical non-SMP motherboards, the PCI IRQs are hard-wired on the
motherboard. That is to say, INTA of slot 13 is wire-OR'd with INTB of
slot 14,
> > >From what I understood from dfr, when switching away from an interrupt
> > handler it is converted into a full thread. When the second piece of
> > hardware fires an interrupt it could then run at the same time.
>
> I thought of this almost immediately - it's a bad idea though because it
>
>
> What about shared interrupts? How are they going to be treated? With the
> spl leaving the arena it somehow looks feasible to run one interrupt
> source on two different threads if there are two pieces of hardware
> attached to the same interrupt line.
>
> >From what I understood from dfr, w
(Moving this to freebsd-smp, Bcc'ing current)
:What about shared interrupts? How are they going to be treated? With the
:spl leaving the arena it somehow looks feasible to run one interrupt
:source on two different threads if there are two pieces of hardware
:attached to the same interrupt li
