Re: ERR in /proc/interrupts

Timur Tabi (ttabi@interactivesi.com)
Thu, 18 Jan 2001 16:21:58 -0600

** Reply to message from Tim Walberg <tewalberg@mediaone.net> on Thu, 18 Jan
2001 16:10:00 -0600

> A quick perusal of the 2.2.18 source code (I don't have
> a copy of 2.4.x handy) shows that it's directly
> related to the number of IPIs (inter-processor
> interrupts) the system has taken. I'm not real
> sure under what conditions this occurs, but it's
> someplace to start...

I thought one reason why IPI's were used was to synchronize the CPUs for a
cache flush. That hardly sounds like an error condition to me.

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Timur Tabi - ttabi@interactivesi.com
Interactive Silicon - http://www.interactivesi.com


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