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On Fri, 24 Apr 1998, Philip Blundell wrote:
> >Alan> per packet tx/rx irq's are just the current very primitive
> >Alan> network card design
> >
> >Sure, but even 80000 divided by 10 is an awful lot ;-)
>
> 8000 irqs a second is a lot yes, but it won't kill you.
Yep, even my old Amiga 4000 with 25 MHz 68040 has no problem servicing 1400
irqs/s.
Greetings,
Geert
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Geert Uytterhoeven Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP} http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/
Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium
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