Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 15 Jul 2005 19:58:19 +0200 | | From | Andi Kleen <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt |
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> That's like scratching your left ear with your right hand -- broadcasting > that external timer interrupt in the first place is more straightforward. > If you want to exclude CPUs from the list of receivers, just use the > logical destination mode appropriately.
The problem with that is that it would need regular synchronizations of all CPUs to coordinate this. Not good for scalability and I believe the fundamentally wrong way to do this.
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