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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 30, 2010
Filed:
Mar. 13, 2008
John J. Hawk, Austin, TX (US);
Alok Pant, Cedar Park, TX (US);
John J. Hawk, Austin, TX (US);
Alok Pant, Cedar Park, TX (US);
Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
Handling interrupts within an information handling system including entering into an interrupt management mode in response to receiving an interrupt, identifying at least one source of the received interrupt in accordance with an ordered list of a plurality of possible interrupt sources, dispatching an appropriate interrupt handler to resolve the identified at least one source of the received interrupt, noting a frequency of occurrence of each indentified at least one source generating a received interrupt over time, and recording the ordered list of possible interrupt sources in response to the noted frequency, wherein the possible interrupt sources with higher frequencies are placed in the beginning of the ordered list.