Re: Van Jacobson's net channels and real-time

[Andi Kleen]

On Tuesday 02 May 2006 14:41, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
 
> You seem to be missing the fact that most of todays interrupts are
> delivered through the APIC bus, which isn't fast at all.

You mean slow right?  Modern x86s (anything newer than a P3) generally don't 
have an separate APIC bus anymore but just send messages over their main
processor connection.

-Andi
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