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From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
To: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: LinuxPPC-dev list <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>,
	tglx@linutronix.de, Chris Snook <csnook@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	maxk@qualcomm.com
Subject: Re: default IRQ affinity change in v2.6.27 (breaking several SMP PPC	based systems)
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:39:58 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4902086E.6030900@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5967704E-0117-46B8-8505-6A002502C38C@kernel.crashing.org>

Kumar Gala wrote:
> So why not just have x86 startup code set irq_default_affinity = 
> CPU_MASK_ALL than?

That doesn't really solve the problem, as a user could still manually 
set an invalid affinity.  The MPIC driver should reduce the affinity 
itself to what the hardware can handle.

-Scott

  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-24 17:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-24 12:45 default IRQ affinity change in v2.6.27 (breaking several SMP PPC based systems) Kumar Gala
2008-10-24 15:17 ` Chris Snook
2008-10-24 15:39   ` Kumar Gala
2008-10-24 16:09     ` Chris Snook
2008-10-24 16:36       ` Kumar Gala
2008-10-24 17:39         ` Scott Wood [this message]
2008-10-24 18:18           ` Chris Snook
2008-10-24 18:26             ` Scott Wood
2008-10-24 17:51         ` Chris Snook
2008-10-24 23:18     ` David Miller
2008-11-19  6:43       ` Max Krasnyansky

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