Its chosen by the APIC hardware, you can control this in great detail
if you desire (see the 82489 manual). The APICs are also a source of
time interrupts of their own.
> Can I create a broadcast interrupt which all processors use for
> timekeeping?
Yes for 16 or less processor machines
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