How do I enable CPU IRQ affinity?
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Modules that are tied to a particular IRQ use an 8K portion of memory called the stack. For SMP machine their are multiple stacks; one for each processor. Occasionally, a poorly written module will consume a large portion of the stack not leave much space for other modules to use. This can lead to the catastrophic system failure known as a stack overflow.
To reduce stack pressure, it is...
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