Which CPU do timers run on?

From: Timur Tabi (ttabi@interactivesi.com)
Date: Sun Sep 09 2001 - 15:46:00 EST

Next message: Adrian Burgess: "Re: IDE Problems on SIS 735? (continued)"
Previous message: Davide Libenzi: "Re: Purpose of the mm/slab.c changes"
Next in thread: george anzinger: "Re: Which CPU do timers run on?"
Reply: george anzinger: "Re: Which CPU do timers run on?"
Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]

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?

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Next message: Adrian Burgess: "Re: IDE Problems on SIS 735? (continued)"
Previous message: Davide Libenzi: "Re: Purpose of the mm/slab.c changes"
Next in thread: george anzinger: "Re: Which CPU do timers run on?"
Reply: george anzinger: "Re: Which CPU do timers run on?"
Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]

This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Sat Sep 15 2001 - 21:00:20 EST