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- From: bgi@stiatl.salestech.com (Brad Isley)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: Help on upgrade to 16550A UART
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.164845.2422@stiatl.salestech.com>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 16:48:45 GMT
- References: <1992Jul16.170654.19057@kumr.lns.com> <1992Jul16.170422.18981@kumr.lns.com> <1992Jul19.112553@mycro.UUCP>
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- scott@mycro.UUCP (Scott C. Sadow) writes:
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- > There is only 1 reason to replace a 8250/16450 with a 16550A -
- >interrupt latency.
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- How about: "CPU time wasted context switching to service interrupts."
- Reducing context switching by a factor of 8 looks good to me.
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