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Andi Kleen wrote:
>>We're actually doing the converse of this in the sched-domain
>>scheduler. Processes have a tendancy to follow the interrupts
>>(ie. try to get onto the same CPU as them).
> 
> 
> Hmm? I don't see any code in sched-domain that would care about
> interrupts. What I'm missing?
> 

Well no, what I should have said is wakeups. We do the same
for all wakeups, so there is nothing interrupt specific you
are right.