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

From: Andi Kleen <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 17:58:52 +0200

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