Re: [PATCH] Support for assymmetric SMP

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 13 Mar 2002 16:17:52 +0000 (GMT)

> > irq always to the same cpu for several seconds. I know the probability
> > for that to happen is low but it can happen.
>
> Actually I know of at least one dual P4 Xeon board where I haven't seen anything
> except IPI go to the second cpu.

Expect that to occur. The random distribution stuff doesn't seem to be a
feature of all pentium IV systems. Ie this bug does want fixing
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