I dont know much about SMP scheduling but after thinking a while I came up with following inference, please correct me if I am wrong. If the ISR and the interrupted process are sharing the stack i.e. of the ISR doesnt have its own seperate stack in that case moving the interrupted process will be difficult since lot of book keeping will be required. Also this would be a fragile situation with chances of data corruption. But as far as I know, an ISR can have a separate stack also, this is configurable. In this case, moving the interrupted process to another cpu will be easier/feasible than before. Regards, Sandeep. On 1/23/07, Rick Brown <rick.brown.3@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi, If an executing process is interrupted by an interrupt, is it ensured that it won't get transferred to another idle CPU in the system?? This would mean that despite the fact that a CPU is idle in the system, still the process will wait untill the ISR finishes its execution? Thanks, Rick -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
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