Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 10 Sep 2001 11:34:21 -0700 | From | george anzinger <> | Subject | Re: Which CPU do timers run on? |
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Timur Tabi wrote: > > When I create a timer (init_timer(), etc) on an SMP system, will the timer > always run on one CPU, or can it run on any CPU? If I disabled interrupts on > only one CPU, will that disable the timer completely? > I believe that timers, like other interrupts, are handled by the CPU pool. Interrupts can be pinned to a particular cpu, but I don't think the timer interrupt is.
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