Subject: Re: FreeBSD Bus DMA (was Re: AdvanSys board support)
To: John Kelly <jak@cetlink.net>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/12/1998 11:40:56
On Fri, 12 Jun 1998 18:33:42 GMT 
 jak@cetlink.net (John Kelly) wrote:

 > >(Software interrupts still have the problem that they run
 > >in interrupt context; I want interrupt context to largely go away.)
 > 
 > The idea of interrupt stubs seems interesting.
 > 
 > I've noticed that top running on BSD/OS reports little or no interrupt
 > time.  Do you know if BSDI uses interrupt stubs, or whether that might
 > just be a bug in their reporting of CPU time?

It's probably a bug.

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