Re: Unmask IRQ safe?

Aaron Tiensivu (tiensivu@pilot.msu.edu)
Fri, 7 Aug 1998 05:05:54 -0400

> Can anyone speculate based on their own experimentation what the
> possible benefits are, and wether it would be risky to enable or
> not?

Safest route is to try it on a read-only partition.. if it seems to work
fine with that, get gutsy and try it full bore.

I've only found 2 machines that hated it (a 386/40) and a crummy DTC
VLB controller driven 486..

I run all my home boxes with -u1 ... ranging from a 486/66 to a K6-3d 300.
It takes a bit of cpu overhead away.. not sure about specific performance
increases but it "seems" nicely faster.

YMMV

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