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What are the various kinds of performance overheads associated with servicing an interrupt?
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Why used interrupts?
An interrupt is a signal from hardware (h/w interrupt) or software (s/w interrupt) to indicate the occurence of an event. It indicates the need of a change in execution. Interrupt handling or servicing of the interrupts depends upon the design of the operating system. A routine which will be called for servicing the interrupt is known as interrupt service routine or ISR and the request for the ISR through an interrupt is known as interrupt request or IRQ. Interrupt is a mechanism used for implementing the multitasking concept. It will use the concept of context switching, for servicing the request.
What happens when processor is attending an interrupt if it gets another interrupt?
The response to another interrupt request during servicing of an interrupt depends on the setting of the interrupt enable flag and/or the interrupt mask. If the interrupt service routine is thread safe, it will process correctly. More probably, problems will arise so the proper procedure is to either set the interrupt mask (8085) to not allow this or lower priority interrupts before reenabling interrupt, or to leave interrupts disabled until this iteration is complete. If interrupts are disabled or masked, a subsequent interrupt will be posted but not processed until the first is completed.
What is the difference between context switch and process switch?
when ever an interrupt occurs, it saves the context of the program being executed & sets the PC to the starting address of the interrupt handling program. now after servicing the interrupt if the same process is resumed which was being interrupted then we will say a context switch has occurred.But imagine after servicing the interrupt if a new process is to be executed then some more work is required, that is it has to save some more information from the PCB to keep reference to resume its execution and we say process switch has occurred..!!
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What is interrupt mechanism?
At the beginning of each FDE cycle, each bit in the interrupt register is checked in turn. This register is a special register in the CPU that takes note of when an interrupt has happened. Each bit in the register represents a different kind of interrupt. If a bit has been set, that would indicate an interrupt has happened! The CPU has to decide whether to service the interrupt immediately, or leave it till later. For example, if 2 interrupts have happened at the same time, one of them has to wait! Which one? That depends upon which one is the least important! Some interrupts are more important than others and so need to be done before others. What about the situation where one interrupt is currently being serviced by the CPU and another happens? Again, it depends on how important the new interrupt is compared to the one already being done. If it is more important, then the cpu will want to service it immediately. When the CPU decides to service an interrupt, it stops processing the current job, 'pushing' the contents of its registers onto the stack. This would include, for example, the contents of the Program Counter and the accumulator. The CPU is now free to work on another piece of software but can return to what it was doing after the interrupt has been serviced because it has saved where it was. It then transfers control to the interrupt handling software for that type of interrupt using the vectored interrupt mechanism. When it has finished servicing the interrupt, the contents of the stack are 'popped' back into the appropriate registers and the CPU continues from where it left off before the interrupt happened.
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The INT 03 instruction on the 8086/8088 and higher class processors is a program generated interrupt that only requires one byte in the opcode. Often, this is used by a debugger, to plant breakpoints at certain points in the code. During the interrupt servicing routine, the original opcode would be restored so that it could be executed if desired. Contrast this with the INT 01 instruction, which is actually a single step type of interrupt. In this case, the debugger sets the single step flag in the return PSW, and then simply returns to the program. No opcode needed to be planted, as there will be an automatic execution of just one instruction, and then the interrupt will occur. The difference is in performance. INT 03 can allow the program to run at full speed until it hits the breakpoint. The downside is that, if the program does not make it to the breakpoint, the debugger will not be able to regain control without forcing an interrupt. INT 01 allows the debugger to examine the state of the program at every single instruction, allowing the implementation of complex rule based breakpoints. The downside is that program execution will be very slow.
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