On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 09:55:44AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Yes, yes, I can very well imagine some hardware doing a "idle until > you sense an interrupt, but don't actually take it". It's not > _impossible_. But it's certainly not normal.
A lot of hardware actually does that, including modern x86. But yes, not nearly everything.
