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==I/O APICs==

I/O APICs contain a redirection table, which is used to route the interrupts it receives from peripheral buses to one or more local APICs. The first-generation dedicatedEarly I/O APICAPICs only had support for 16 interrupt lines, thebut later ones like 82093AA, had support for 24 interrupt lines.<ref name="msi">James Coleman, [http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/white-papers/msg-signaled-interrupts-paper.pdf Reducing Interrupt Latency Through the Use of Message Signaled Interrupts], pp. 10-11</ref> It was packaged as a 64-Pin [[PQFP]].<ref name="i82093AA">{{cite web|url=http://www.intel.com/design/chipsets/datashts/290566.htm|title=Resource & Design Center for Development with Intel|website=Intel}}</ref> The 82093AA normally connected to the [[PIIX3]] and used its integrated legacy 8259 PICs.<ref name="i82093AA"/> The [[I/O Controller Hub#ICH|ICH1]] integrated an I/O APIC.

According to a 2009 Intel benchmark using [[Linux]], the I/O APIC reduced interrupt latency by a factor of almost three relative to the 8259 emulation (XT-PIC), while using MSI reduced the latency even more, by a factor of nearly seven relative to the XT-PIC baseline.<ref>James Coleman, [http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/white-papers/msg-signaled-interrupts-paper.pdf Reducing Interrupt Latency Through the Use of Message Signaled Interrupts], p. 19</ref>