--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
> > >
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