interesting(?) data on network interrupt servicing

[Paolo Pisati]

On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 03:45:12PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
> This is going out to the I/O APIC and writing a bit to mask the
> interrupt until the handler has run.  Is he using a kernel that
> has SMP enabled?  If so, turning SMP off might make things
> slightly better.

7.x:
SMP is on, PREEMPTION if off

4.x:
SMP is off (doesn't boot on a UP box with SMP turned on)

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Paolo

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