On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 11:27:41PM -0700, Chris Caputo wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> > Changing the affinity writes new values to the IOAPIC registers, I can't see
> > how that could interfere with the atomicity of a spinlock operation. I dont
> > understand why you think irqbalance could affect anything.
> 
> Because when I stop running irqbalance the crashes no longer happen.

what is the irq distribution when you do that?
Can you run irqbalance for a bit to make sure there's a static distribution
of irq's and then disable it and see if it survives ?