CY_PCI_FASTINTR (Was: Re: Cyclom-Y driver for FreeBSD - help!!!)

1999-05-11 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
On Tue, Jun 23, 1998 at 04:29:46PM -0700, David Greenman wrote: A couple of things: First, I'm not the person maintaining the driver in FreeBSD. All that I did was write the PCI front end to an existing driver. Bruce Evans b...@freebsd.org is the maintainer of the Cyclades-Y driver, so

Re: CY_PCI_FASTINTR (Was: Re: Cyclom-Y driver for FreeBSD - help!!!)

1999-05-11 Thread sthaug
Just out of curiosity. What is the ``interrupt latency in the FreeBSD kernel'' problem and what are the ``Bruce's fast interrupt hacks''? Poul-Henning Kamp made some interesting interrupt latency measurements for the FreeBSD kernel. See

Re: CY_PCI_FASTINTR (Was: Re: Cyclom-Y driver for FreeBSD - help!!!)

1999-05-11 Thread Bruce Evans
Am I understand this right: if I configure my PCI card to an exclusive interrupt, and then turn on CY_PCI_FASTINTR, I'll get rid of ``silo overflows'' on it. Except in -current, where CY_PCI_FASTINTR is broken (it has no effect). Just out of curiosity. What is the ``interrupt latency in the