On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 05:57:08PM -0500, Justin S. Peavey wrote: > Reword: ...noapic forces all interrupts to be handled by CPU_0 instead > of the specific processor associated with the thread handling the > request...
The APIC processor does a bit more than that. From what I know (and I am no APIC expert at all) it tries to balance the IRQ load over multiple CPUs to try to improve response time. The downside is that you can have more cache misses when this happens, so some people force "noapic" mode on. Since the motherboard you have has the APIC lines wired incorrectly (actually not at all), it should be run in "noapic" mode. I've heard that this also happens in Windows. thanks, greg k-h _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
