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Date:      Wed, 1 May 2002 15:11:23 -0700
From:      Jonathan Mini <mini@freebsd.org>
To:        Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
Cc:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: hlt when idle?
Message-ID:  <20020501151123.G30080@stylus.haikugeek.com>
In-Reply-To: <15568.20086.979721.992191@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>; from gallatin@cs.duke.edu on Wed, May 01, 2002 at 04:22:14PM -0400
References:  <15567.62317.677224.3470@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <XFMail.20020501161528.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <15568.20086.979721.992191@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>

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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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Jonathan Mini <mini@freebsd.org>
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