Baker College of Port Huron (Ontario) -CS 231 -The modem interrupt handler immediately

1. You have a PC with a 2 GHz processor, a system bus clocked at 400 MHz, and a 3 Mbps internal cable modem attached to the system buz. No parity or other error-checking mechanisms are used. The modem has a 64-byte buffer. After it receives 64 bytes, it stops accepting data from the network and sends a "data ready" interrupt to the CPU. When the interrupt is received, the CPU and OS perform the following actions:

a. The supervisor is called
b. The supervisor calls the modem's "data ready" interrupt handler.
c. The interrupt handler sends a command to the modem, instructing it to copy its buffer content to main memory,
d. The modem interrupt handler immediately returns control to the supervisor
e. The supervisor returns control to the process that was originally interrupted

Sending an interrupt requires one bus cycle. A push or pop operation consumes 30 CPU cycles. Incrementing the stack pointer and executing an unconditional BRANCH instruction require one CPU cycle each. The supervisor consumes eight CPU cycles searching the interrupt table before calling an interrupt handler. The "data ready" interrupt handler consumes 50 CPU cycles before returning to the supervisor.

Incoming packets are 64 bytes. The "transfer complete" interrupt consumes 30 CPU cycles before returning to the supervisor if it doesn't detect a complete packet in memory. If it does, it consumes 30 CPU cycles plus one cycle for each 8 bytes of the packet.

Use the following table to determine how long it takes to move a 64-byte packet from its arrival at the modem until its receipt in the memory area of the target application program or service? State your answer in elapsed time (nanoseconds).

Now fill in CPU cycles and times