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From: Timur Tabi <ttabi@interactivesi.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ERR in /proc/interrupts
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 16:21:58 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010118222204Z135868-404+1119@vger.kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010118161000.A3487@mediaone.net>
In-Reply-To: <001c01c08199$387205f0$067039c3@cintasverdes> <001c01c08199$387205f0$067039c3@cintasverdes>  from Jorge Boncompte (DTI2) on 01/18/2001 15:54

** 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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  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-01-18 22:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-01-18 21:54 Jorge Boncompte (DTI2)
2001-01-18 22:10 ` Tim Walberg
2001-01-18 22:31   ` Jorge Boncompte (DTI2)
2001-01-18 22:41   ` Timur Tabi
2001-01-18 22:58     ` Jorge Boncompte (DTI2)
2001-01-18 22:21 ` Timur Tabi [this message]
2003-09-30  9:39 Andreas Schwarz
2003-09-30 10:16 ` Christian
2003-09-30 10:34   ` Andreas Schwarz
2003-09-30 17:54     ` Andreas Schwarz
2003-09-30 10:45   ` Raj

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