Compaq ECQD2KCTE manual Multiprocessor Send/Receive Interrupt

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First Processor

 

Second Processor

 

 

 

:

 

 

Pick up ownership of process con-

 

 

text data structure memory.

 

 

MB

 

 

Assign new ASN or invalidate

 

 

TBs.

 

 

Save state of current process.

 

 

Restore state of new process.

 

 

MB

 

 

Pass ownership of process context

:

data structure memory.

Pickup ownership of new process context

:

 

data structure memory.

:

 

MB

 

 

Assign new ASN or invalidate TBs.

 

 

Save state of current process.

 

 

Restore state of new process.

 

 

MB

 

 

Pass ownership of old process context data

 

 

structure memory.

 

 

:

 

 

Execute code for new process that accesses

 

 

memory that is not common to all processes.

 

 

 

5.6.4.6 Multiprocessor Send/Receive Interrupt

If one processor writes some shared data, then sends an interrupt to a second processor, and that processor receives the interrupt, then accesses the shared data, the sequence from Section 5.6.4.3 must be used:

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Compaq ECQD2KCTE manual Multiprocessor Send/Receive Interrupt