On Thu, 17 Dec 1998, Doug Ledford wrote:
> Just so you know though, it isn't a problem in real practice:
> 8: 1 + rtc
> 9: 483377 aic7xxx, aic7xxx, aic7xxx, aic7xxx, aic7xxx, aic7xxx,
> aic7xxx, Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100 Ethernet
> 10: 18581 scb0
>
> That's seven aic7xxx busses on one interrupt under 2.0.36 and they only
> marginally spread out better with the IO-APIC code in 2.1.131
The IO-APIC code cannot 'spread out' interrupts. It can take advantage of
a better pin-connection to the IO-APIC, but thats hardcoded in most cases.
But the IO-APIC can spread out interrupts between CPUs.
-- mingo
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