Inter-processor interrupt: Difference between revisions

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Speak of "the interrupting processor", list some multiple-ISA multi-OS reasons for an IPI.
Examples: Yes, that's what the introductory paragraph says.
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IPIs are given an [[IRQL (Windows)|IRQL]] of 29.
 
=== Linux/Unix ===
In Unix/Linux, the IPI interrupt is often used by the CPU in the [[Symmetric multiprocessor|SMP]] and [[Asymmetric multiprocessing|AMP]] configurations to communicate with other processors in the setup.
 
==See also==