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<div class="gmail_quote">2008/12/23 Prentice Bisbal <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:prentice@ias.edu">prentice@ias.edu</a>></span><br>
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<div></div></div>Regarding the issue handling interrupts and how that can affect<br>performance is discussed in this paper, which determined that in<br>multiprocessors systems, it's best to let one processor do all the<br>
interrupt handling (and nothing else)</blockquote>
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<div>Indeed. </div>
<div>SGI Altix have 'bootcpusets' which means you can slice off one or two processors to take care of OS housekeeping tasks, </div>
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