On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> Agreed ;). OTOH there's a minor pros with such SMP irq design that we are
> forced to use: we kill irq latency best. IO-APIC AFIK chooses the CPU that
> is handling the lower bus load at irq time, but it doesn't choose the CPU
> that has irq enabled AFIK.
incorrect, it does.
> "From all processors listed in the destination, the processor
> selected is the one whose current arbitration priority is the
> lowest."
check out the 'focus CPU' feature.
-- mingo
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