From: george anzinger <george@mvista.com>
To: Timur Tabi <ttabi@interactivesi.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Which CPU do timers run on?
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 11:34:21 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B9D07AD.E3310270@mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3B9BD508.1050200@interactivesi.com>
Timur Tabi wrote:
>
> When I create a timer (init_timer(), etc) on an SMP system, will the timer
> always run on one CPU, or can it run on any CPU? If I disabled interrupts on
> only one CPU, will that disable the timer completely?
>
I believe that timers, like other interrupts, are handled by the CPU
pool. Interrupts can be pinned to a particular cpu, but I don't think
the timer interrupt is.
George
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2001-09-09 20:46 Which CPU do timers run on? Timur Tabi
2001-09-10 18:34 ` george anzinger [this message]
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