[luau] interrupt list in /proc/stat file

Charles Lockhart lockhart at jeans.ifa.hawaii.edu
Wed Apr 10 13:27:50 PDT 2002


Oh yeah, 2nd question, where do people find info on stuff like this?  I
generally go through a lot of books and web searches for linux system
stuff like this, stuff that doesn't seem like it should be all that
esoteric, but for some reason is.

-Charles

On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Charles Lockhart wrote:

> 
> Hello,
> 
> Am I correct in thinking that the /proc/stat file's list of interrupt
> counts reflects the number of interrupts the CPU has received on the irq
> lines regardless of whether the irq line as been assigned an isr or used
> at all?  Is this basically a count of the number of interrupt signals that
> are sent to the CPU, and therefore software independent?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Charles
> 
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