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Jacksonville, FL | Host based processing doesn't help It also doesn't help that many network and audio processors are host based. Granted, CPU's are much more capable (as Russinovich stated) than ever, but many of them are not discrete in processing each stack. In their effort to get to a low cost point, they turn over much of their processing over to a thread in the CPU which requires more management by the OS to schedule.
It would be interesting to see if this bug in Vista occurs when discrete hardware is used in both the network and audio layer.
Millions of gigabit links are supported by Realtek's host based network RTL processors. Combine that with the millions of host based AC97 controllers, and you force the OS the manage more and more of the scheduling.
Again, this has been driven by companies trying to reach a price point and pushing the processing engines into where the costs can be absorbed more readily...the CPU and the OS.
Users pay less, but suffer more when it isn't done right. |
