Re: irq/0/smp_affinity =3 doesn't seem to work

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 18:30 +0200, Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro) wrote:
> hello.
> 
> I have a dual cpu AMD machine, I noticed that
> only one timer0 is working in /proc/interrutps.
> setting proc/irq/0/smp_affinity to 3 does make
> any difference.

if you set it to 3 then the chipset gets to decide where the irq goes.
Many decide to send it to the first cpu. 

(not that it matters, the timer is so low frequency that it can go
anywhere without problems)

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