Inter-processor interrupt: Difference between revisions

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In a Windows based multiprocessor system, a processor may interrupt another processor for the following reasons:

1. Queue a DISPATCH_LEVEL interrupt to schedule a particular thread for execution.<br />

2. updatingUpdating the processor's translation look-aside buffers cache.<br />

3. System Shutdown.<br />

4. System Crash.

In windows, this has IRQL as 29.