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