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Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 19:42:08 +0200
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Subject: Re: [announce] [patch] limiting IRQ load, irq-rewrite-2.4.11-B5
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jamal writes:
 > 
 > This was Robert actually; conclusion was Interupts are very expensive. If
 > we can get rid of as many of them as possible, we are getting a side
 > benefit. I cant find the old data, but Robert has some data over here:
 > http://robur.slu.se/Linux/net-development/experiments/010301


 Jamal! 

 I think you ment:
 http://robur.slu.se/Linux/net-development/experiments/010313

 MB with PIC irq controller IO-APIC boards does a lot better.

 Cheers.

						--ro
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