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- Sep 7, 2003
I saw the option in my BIOS and decided to read about it. I think I learned something out of it, but I have a few more questions.
The timer is measured in clocks, right? Lets say it's at 32 clocks.
The timer is used to make sure each device gets a fair share of the PCI bus, right? So for every 32 clocks, it switches to another PCI device unless if there is nothing waiting in line then it can take another share.
So if I'm at 3ghz and it switches every 32 clocks, there will be 93 shares in that second.
Is it trying to get a share so that it can go to the NB(to use cpu ram or whatever)?
I guess it doesn't seem like a lot considering how much resources stuff uses, but there isn't a limit on how much it can use in those 32 clocks, and there are buffers.
What am I missing here? I don't fully understand this.
The timer is measured in clocks, right? Lets say it's at 32 clocks.
The timer is used to make sure each device gets a fair share of the PCI bus, right? So for every 32 clocks, it switches to another PCI device unless if there is nothing waiting in line then it can take another share.
So if I'm at 3ghz and it switches every 32 clocks, there will be 93 shares in that second.
Is it trying to get a share so that it can go to the NB(to use cpu ram or whatever)?
I guess it doesn't seem like a lot considering how much resources stuff uses, but there isn't a limit on how much it can use in those 32 clocks, and there are buffers.
What am I missing here? I don't fully understand this.