Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 18 Jan 2001 16:21:58 -0600 | From | Timur Tabi <> | Subject | Re: ERR in /proc/interrupts |
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** Reply to message from Tim Walberg <tewalberg@mediaone.net> on Thu, 18 Jan 2001 16:10:00 -0600
> A quick perusal of the 2.2.18 source code (I don't have > a copy of 2.4.x handy) shows that it's directly > related to the number of IPIs (inter-processor > interrupts) the system has taken. I'm not real > sure under what conditions this occurs, but it's > someplace to start...
I thought one reason why IPI's were used was to synchronize the CPUs for a cache flush. That hardly sounds like an error condition to me.
-- Timur Tabi - ttabi@interactivesi.com Interactive Silicon - http://www.interactivesi.com
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