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Re: MIssed interrupts



Hi...

On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 9:34 PM, Peter Teoh <htmldeveloper@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  This is something new to me.   After some some search, Mulyadi is
>  right.  It is called "Interrupt Request Buffering".   And according to
>  Unabridged Pentium 4 (pg 1537) while processing one interrupt, it can
>  receive another interrupt, but the 3rd one that comes in will be
>  discarded, and it is all on the same interrupt vector.   Thanks for
>  the sharing everyone....

Well, I just recall the best I could from Understanding the Linux
kernel 3rd edition. If somebody can give further confirmation, that
would be great.

regards,

Mulyadi.

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