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Date of Patent
October 7, 2008
Patent Application Number
11320923
Date Filed
December 28, 2005
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Patent 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.
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