linux with disabled interrupts

2005-04-20 Thread Francesco Oppedisano
spent by the kernel with disables interrupts? In uniprocessor systems, can i state that the only instruction capable of disabling interrupts is cli? Thank u very much Francesco Oppedisano - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a me

DMA transfer

2005-04-19 Thread Francesco Oppedisano
Hi, when i NIC writes a packet in memory using a DMA transaction, can i be sure that this transaction will tranfer the entire frame or it is possible to have frame fragmentation with every fragment beeing transferred in a separate DMA transaction? Thank u very much Francesco Oppedisano - To

more packets than interrupts

2005-04-19 Thread Francesco Oppedisano
Hi, using tcpdump to capture ethernet packets i noticed i obtain more packets than interrupts (taken from /proc/interrupts). I found this with all NICs available to me (8139, e1000pro, one using sk98lin, 3com 59x, via rhine etc..). Where the NIC supports any type of mitigation or similar (see NAPI)

Re: about interrupt latency

2005-03-09 Thread Francesco Oppedisano
r vector) 3)fetching ISR from main memory 4)wait time when CPU is running with disabled interrupt Do U agree? Thank u very much Francesco Oppedisano - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordo

Re: about interrupt latency

2005-03-09 Thread Francesco Oppedisano
rienced by a NIC interrupt, but remember that i need only a coarse measure. Nevertheless, the information about the ISR in cache is very interesting, probably it's what i was looking forthank u. Francesco Oppedisano - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

about interrupt latency

2005-03-08 Thread Francesco Oppedisano
pt latency? Than u very much Francesco Oppedisano - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/