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From: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Few interrupts with NO_HZ
Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2007 17:22:52 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46B7AD4C.1020806@shaw.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fa.09fMUH3GW8WqIBDx7yLbNn+7hAo@ifi.uio.no>

Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> this more of an informational question. So:
> 
> kernel version is 2.6.22.1 on i686
> 
> /proc/uptime 
> 9917.81 9140.90 (2h45m)
> 
> /proc/cpuinfo:
>            CPU0
>   0:        282   IO-APIC-edge      timer
> 
> this is kinda neat, I expected much more interrupts than just 282 since 
> boot. What kernel code actually uses the irq0 timer?

The kernel likely switched to using the local APIC timer after bootup..

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       reply	other threads:[~2007-08-06 23:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <fa.09fMUH3GW8WqIBDx7yLbNn+7hAo@ifi.uio.no>
2007-08-06 23:22 ` Robert Hancock [this message]
2007-08-06 10:52 Few interrupts with NO_HZ Jan Engelhardt
2007-08-06 13:47 ` Chris Snook
2007-08-06 14:28   ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-08-06 14:35     ` Chris Snook
2007-08-06 22:31 ` Kyle McMartin

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