计算机组织与系统结构.pptVIP

Let me show you what I mean. For example here, the CPU receives a keyboard interrupt request in the middle of the Divide instruction. If the divide instruction causes an divide by 0 exception , we have to handle it immediately. But here we have an interrupt, we can say, well, I have been spending all this time doing this divide and is almost finish, let’s wait. So the interrupt is not taken until after the divide instruction has completed. As far as generating the interrupt target address is concerned, we also have two options. First is the low cost version. We make all interrupts go to a c