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- From: hwr@pilhuhn.ka.sub.org (Heiko W.Rupp)
- Subject: Re: SUMMARY: cpu usage of unused but enabled serial port
- References: <1992Nov17.142613.27644@news.th-darmstadt.de>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 11:00:02 GMT
- Organization: The Home of the Pilhuhn
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.110002.17869@pilhuhn.ka.sub.org>
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- uli@kino.intellektik.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Ulrich Grepel) writes:
- >this is a summary of the hints I've got for my problem with my unused but
- >enabled serial ports eating up my CPU:
-
- Just disable them. - see 3a
-
- >2. It seems to be the case that the ports generate interrupts.
-
- They need to work correctly. Where other should the device driver know
- from that the fifo needs to be emptied? It could busy wait, but this
- would even nned more CPU.
-
- >3. You can decrease CPU usage in several ways:
- > a) don't enable the ports
- > c) use the dsp together with additional hardware to get a high speed
- > serial port that doesn't use up your CPU
-
- Would be interesting, but there are still many things to go on the
- DSP-Port.
-
- >4. The whole thing seems to be irrelevant of the OS version. I have 3.0, but
- > it was that bad much earlier. That's easy to understand since it is a
- > hardware problem.
-
- It is not a problem! That's the way a device driver works. If NeXT had
- used serial chips with 16 byte fifo for each serial port (and enabled
- this 16 bytes fifo), interrupt load would have decreased.
-
-
- --
- Heiko W.Rupp Gerwigstr.5 7500 Kh'e 1 hwr@pilhuhn.ka.sub.org +49 721 693642
- Mustgo, n.:
- Any item of food that has been sitting in the refrigerator so
- long it has become a science project.
- -- Sniglets, "Rich Hall & Friends"
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