[parisc-linux] Affined IRQs.

Naresh knaresh@india.hp.com
Mon, 11 Aug 2003 18:03:03 +0530


A couple of questions:
1. Do does this mean interrupts can go to any CPU?
2. If a CPU on an SMP system is stopped or its interrupts are blocked, will
its interrupts automatically be serviced on another online CPU, due to their
non-affining nature?
Regards,
Naresh.

Thibaut VARENE wrote:

> > Hi,
> > The IA-64 Linux kernel has a concept of affined IRQs, wherein IRQs can
> > be bound/affined to particular CPUs. The affinity information shows up
> > in '/proc/irq/#/smp_affinity'. I cannot see any affinity of IRQs to CPUs
> > in PA ( iosapic.c and irq.c).. Is my understanding correct?
> > Regards,
> > Naresh.
>
> This has to be implemented for parisc and is on my todo list ;)
>
> (BTW, on vacation till Aug 25th.)
>
> Thibaut VARENE
> The PA/Linux ESIEE Team
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