Inter-processor interrupt: Difference between revisions

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=== Windows ===
In a [[Microsoft Windows]] based multiprocessor system, a processor may interrupt another processor for the following reasons, in addition to the ones listed above:
 
1.# Queuequeue a DISPATCH_LEVEL interrupt to schedule a particular thread for execution.<br />;
5.# Kernelkernel debugger breakpoint.
2. Updating the processor's [[translation lookaside buffer]]s cache.<br />
3. System shutdown.<br />
4. System crash.<br />
5. Kernel debugger breakpoint.
 
IPIs are given an [[IRQL (Windows)|IRQL]] of 29.