aix/370 async. term help request
Mark Bodenstein
MAB at CORNELLC.BITNET
Fri Mar 30 08:26:05 AEST 1990
On Thu, 29 Mar 90 09:08:24 EST Alton Brantley said:
> ...
> You do NOT want a 3090 stopping its work to field an interrupt containing
>a single character.
It's not (quite) as bad as first appears. Packets for the 3090 are buffered
at the 8232 for a short while, to see if they can be aggregated with other
packets. Under load, this means that there will be only 1 I/O interrupt on
the 3090 to receive many packets from many different sources. This helps
quite a bit.
Mark Bodenstein (mab at cornellc; 607-255-3747)
Cornell University
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