From: Andi K. <ak...@su...> - 2000-12-21 22:16:41
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On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 01:24:16PM -0800, Tim Wright wrote: > Hi Andi, > sounds like we should be talking. What you say is exactly in line with some > work we have planned here. We're currently looking to prototype use of > APIC priority programming here in Beaverton. > > Simply put, in DYNIX/ptx we always set the local APIC priority to indicate > what the processor is doing. Doing this means that interrupts always get > delivered to the least loaded (preferably) idle CPU. Could you expand a bit on what these states are in dynix ? Is it just like BSD spl levels, or more complicated ? -Andi |