Subject: Re: Peculiar interrupt statistics
To: None <eeh@netbsd.org>
From: Jarle Greipsland <jarle@uninett.no>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 10/12/2001 09:26:03
eeh@netbsd.org writes:
> | Notice the almost equal numbers for level1 and level6 interrupt.
>
> Level 6 is usually used for ethernet devices and level 1 is for
> soft interrupts. Since an ethernet interrupt usually results in
> scheduling a network soft interrupt, that's the reason why both
> counts are very close in value.
Ah. Thanks for the explanation.
-jarle
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