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monocasa on March 22, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: How long does it take to make a context switch? (2...

At a minimum you still need timer and TLB IPI shootdown interrupts hitting every core, just to have a working SMP system.

gpderetta on March 22, 2017 [–]

the cpu does need to handle IPI of course but not sure about timers.

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