From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 28 8:39: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from Ilsa.StevesCafe.com (Ilsa.StevesCafe.com [205.168.119.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A676156FA for ; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 08:39:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fbsd@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com) Received: from Ilsa.StevesCafe.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Ilsa.StevesCafe.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA61141; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 09:41:11 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from fbsd@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com) Message-Id: <199904281541.JAA61141@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 From: Steve Passe To: Zhihui Zhang Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Basic SMP-kernel questions In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 27 Apr 1999 16:33:28 EDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 09:41:11 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, > Since I have moved from FreeBSD 2.2.8 to FreeBSD 3.1, I want to know some > of the issues not related to uni-processor kernel. For example: > ... > (2) If an external interrupt occurs, which CPU will respond to it? Or all > CPUs will respond to it? How about internal exceptions? Its a bit out of date, but look at: http://www.freebsd.org/~fsmp/SMP/papers/apicsubsystem.txt -- Steve Passe | powered by smp@csn.net | Symmetric MultiProcessor FreeBSD To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message