On Wed, Sep 02, 1998 at 04:18:53PM -0700, Perry Harrington wrote:
> I'm wondering, can the APIC be enabled for UP boards? If so, why
> doesn't Linux enable the APIC as the default interrupt controller
> for single processor Pentium+ systems?
>
> --Perry
>
> > >
> > > > _external_ interrupts have much higher latencies. (especially as old
> > > > XT-PIC interrupts halt the CPU for a considerable amount of time ... this
> > > > is not the case with IO-APIC and inter-CPU interrupts.)
> > > >
> > > > -- mingo
> > > >
>
> --
> Perry Harrington Linux rules all OSes. APSoft ()
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