Note that the hardware overhead of interrupt handling is usually still
much much less than the software overhead. Bad interrupt latency comes
from bad code, not from bad hardware.
The old-style XT-PIC is slower enough that you can see the effects under
Linux, but that's with a fairly optimized interrupt handling path. I
suspect the thing is completely in the noise when running NT.
Linus
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