yup. minimizing open_pic I/O could be a big win. the fact that
the PIC shows up _way_ ahead of the network driver and stack is
pretty freakish compared to a profile on x86 using io-apic
(the legacy x86 pic has similar but less severe issues as open_pic).
-Bryan
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