|
Acpi will help your system run cooler, and it will bench faster.
As to apic, if you see all your irqs as one number, no matter. They aren't really all on the same irq, that's just a placeholder number to show you. The apic controller gives out an irq to a device as it has the irq to give and the device has priority to do so at the time. The apic controller holds the irqs in a "pool" and lets a device have one when required. That is how you can get more than 16 irqs, wich x86 architecture is stuck with.
Some thoughts for ya.
|