On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 11:08:20PM +0000, Kenn Humborg mentioned:
> In SMP, the CPUs are capable of performing the same tasks, such as
> receiving interrupts and running kernel code.
I used to think that, until some of the first SMP versions of Linux were
just able to accept interrupts to one CPU - which is not strictly
symmetrical. However, I wasn't sure was that must because of kernel
limitations, or hardware limitations...the P90 being the first chip to
have an on-chip I/O APIC, so some board manufacturers could just have only
one I/O APIC to save cost...
Kate
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