Subject: Re: apm and com performance
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 03/18/2001 16:40:12
	Isn't there a kernel option to not disable interrupts while in
	APM - does it help in this case?

		David/absolute		-- www.netbsd.org: No hype required --


On Sun, 18 Mar 2001, Manuel Bouyer wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 02:52:02PM +0100, wojtek@wojtek.from.pl wrote:
> > why when apm is compiled my serial-ppp transfer from my home machine to
> > notebook (486 with 16450 uart) drops from 10.9kB to 3-5kB???
>
> When APM is compiled in I think the kernel does calls to the BIOS, which
> may block interrupts for too long ...
>
> --
> Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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