Re: SMP broken on Dell PowerEdge 4100/200 under 2.6.0-testxx?

William Lee Irwin III
2003-12-06T02:48:54Z

On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 10:32:45AM +0800, Colin Coe wrote:
>> CPU0 CPU1
>> 0: 633122 30 IO-APIC-edge timer
>> 1: 207 IO-APIC-edge i8042
>> 2: XT-PIC cascade
>> 4: 48 1 IO-APIC-edge serial
>> 5: 449 1 IO-APIC-level eth1
>> 10: 135 1 IO-APIC-level aic7xxx
>> 11: 1447 1 IO-APIC-level eth0
>> 12: 61 IO-APIC-edge i8042
>> 14: IO-APIC-level CS46XX
>> 15: 14982 1 IO-APIC-level megaraid

On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 06:42:51PM -0800, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> 2.6 does balancing across packages, not logical cpus, so this will
> happen and it will be largely harmless, except for what appears to
> be some kind of bug where it's stealing the timer from logical cpu 1.

Replied-to text trimming bogon, apparently. They're "LOC:" for local
APIC timer interrupts. What's reported for irq 0 above is odd though.

-- wli