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Notes and examples for multithreaded TTY drivers

Processing interrupts

Character devices are mostly active at interrupt time so distributing the interrupt handling is important to improve both driver and system performance on multiprocessor systems. Otherwise, interrupts will arrive at the default processor and all activity will take place on that processor. There are two methods for spreading the interrupt processing across CPUs:



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