Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 10:52:24 06/02/04
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On June 02, 2004 at 10:07:35, Norm Pollock wrote: >Another question to ask is which processor does the OS housekeeping. The engine >using that processor will occassionally have to give control to the OS. Non-deterministic. Interrupts get randomly distributed to the processors by the APIC as needed. No way to guarantee that, although I believe that in Linux one can say "all interrupts go to CPU 0" although that hurts performance by stacking interrupts on top of each other.
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