Andrew Gallatin [gallatin@cs.duke.edu] wrote :
> > No, the interrupts seem to be round-robin, but each clock intr is only
> > sent to one CPU unlike on alpha where they are broadcast.
>
> So each CPU gets (1/num_cpu) * hz clock interrupts/sec?
Yes, but because the timer is set to num_cpu*hz, each CPU ends up getting
the normal hz interrupts. That's why it runs round-robin but looks like a
broadcast.
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