7 Jan
2009
7 Jan
'09
3:08 a.m.
James Cameron wrote:
On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 12:11:44AM -1000, david wrote:
What does "these days" mean in terms of hardware? The laptop is running
a 1.5GHz Celeron M (the Celeron that's a kind of cut-down Mobile Pentium
4, with way too small a processor cache for the P4 architecture).
Effective throughput is about the same as a 1GHz non-M Celeron.
I wouldn't be surprised to find that the
silly laptop shares
interrupts with PCMCIA, video and audio hardware!
Not considered very harmful these days. But by all means measure the
latency in response to those interrupts, see if there is a real problem.
Perhaps one of the drivers needs to defer some processing to soft-IRQ.
Sorry - ????
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David
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