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Re: IRQ's (was Re: Linux Driver)

Subject: Re: IRQ's (was Re: Linux Driver)
From: Paul Jakma (paul@clubi.ie)
Date: Wed Nov 8 22:17:47 2000


On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, Jay Estabrook wrote:

>
> Richard Henderson completed the work by doling out interrupts to CPUs
> on a sort-of static round-robin allocation at register_interrupt()

how is IRQ distribution done on i386 SMP? iirc it's a lot more
dynamic on it, (irq's are routed to cpu randomly?)

what's holding the alpha port back from a similar dynamic IRQ
scheme? i imagine alpha PIC must be at least as sophisticated as i386
APIC if not more.. :)

> time, which however can be overridden via command-line args (and I
> think the overriding code came from Andrea :-).
>
> --Jay++
>

regards,

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