Hi all,
I had a few question regarding how interrupt handling work on linux
within a SMP systems.
1. Which processor gets the interrupt when a new packet arrives? Is
there any policy mechanism which can guide the interrupt to the idle
processor etc? Do the processors share an interrupt line and
Hi,
I am developing a netfilter based application on an SMP (AMD 64;dual
core) system (kernel 2.6).
One thing that I noticed over a period of time was that most of the
network traffic was handled by only one of the processor. Only under
high network traffic (roughly 10,000 packet/sec or more) did
