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From: dhesi@ether.rahul.net
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.protocols.ppp,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Best Unix for SLIP/PPP Server- Best Reliability/Cost?
Date: 17 Nov 1996 10:45:33 GMT
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In <56m0bb$qiq@nntp1.best.com> dillon@flea.best.net (Matt Dillon) writes:

>    They are (or should) still be interrupts, but possibly fixed-period
>    interrupts.  i.e. one interrupt per millisecond if data is present...
>    or something like that.  This isn't really polled, but it does allow 
>    486/pentium caches to work better in terms of taking the load.

If a timer interrupt invokes a routine that polls a non-interrupt-
causing device, is this polled I/O or interrupt-driven I/O?
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Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@rahul.net>
"please ignore Dhesi" -- Mark Crispin <mrc@CAC.Washington.EDU>