[PATCH] MFC of the intr_event stuff

John Baldwin jhb at freebsd.org
Wed Mar 8 16:32:18 UTC 2006


On Tuesday 07 March 2006 19:45, Mike Tancsa wrote:
> At 07:29 PM 07/03/2006, Mike Tancsa wrote:
> >At 03:02 PM 07/03/2006, John Baldwin wrote:
> >>I have a somewhat large patch that MFC's some of the cleanups to the
> >>interrupt code that needs some testing before it is MFC'd.
> >
> >
> >It seems to help my sio overflows that are described in
> >
> >
> >http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=51982
> 
> Actually, it only helps on the ICH box.  On the VIA, I still need to 
> make the change that Bruce Evans suggests

The reason it might help is that if your sio(4) device shares its IRQ
with another driver, it would previously have been forced to use a
non-FAST handler, but now sio(4) can always use a FAST handler.

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