[rescue] Sun 711

[David Passmore]

On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 05:38:56PM +0100, Chris Byrne wrote:
> No he's right, interrupts will kill you even if its doing a single task. x86
> mobos suck that wasy. Try it and you'll see. There WILL be a significant
> portion of unrelated interrupts, and they WILL take a small but measurable
> amount of time away from the I/O. That's why you really need big cache on
> these controllers.

Okay, I'll bite. Where are these unrelated interrupts coming from? And why
are they of sufficient quantity to kill I/O performance on a 2Ghz processor
running on a 533Mhz bus?

David