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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 07, 2008
Filed:
Dec. 28, 2005
Mani Ayyar, Cupertino, CA (US);
Ioannis Schoinas, Portland, OR (US);
Rama R. Menon, Portland, OR (US);
Aniruddha Vaidya, Mountain View, CA (US);
Akhilesh Kumar, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Mani Ayyar, Cupertino, CA (US);
Ioannis Schoinas, Portland, OR (US);
Rama R. Menon, Portland, OR (US);
Aniruddha Vaidya, Mountain View, CA (US);
Akhilesh Kumar, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
An embodiment of the present invention is a technique to process system management interrupt. A system management interrupt (SMI) is received. The SMI is associated with a system management mode (SMM). A conditional SMI inter-processor interrupt (IPI) message is broadcast to at least a processor. The SMI is processed without waiting for the at least processor to check into the SMM. A clear pending SMI is broadcast to the processors at end of SMI processing to clear a pending SMI condition.