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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: IRQ splitting
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 12:23:41 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070405122341.482f5e26@freekitty> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 46150913.4000406@shaw.ca

On Thu, 05 Apr 2007 08:34:59 -0600
Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca> wrote:

> Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> > Hello list,
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > let's take the following /proc/interrupts dump (CPU2,CPU3 trimmed)...
> > 
> >            CPU0       CPU1
> >   0:   37041766   37038991  IO-APIC-edge  timer
> >   1:         10          2  IO-APIC-edge  i8042
> >   8:          0          0  IO-APIC-edge  rtc
> >   9:          0          0  IO-APIC-level  acpi
> >  12:        114          0  IO-APIC-edge  i8042
> >  14:      25219    5800049  IO-APIC-edge  ide0
> > 201:     260381     238454  IO-APIC-level  aacraid
> > 209:          0          0  IO-APIC-level  ohci_hcd:usb1
> > 217:          0          0  IO-APIC-level  ehci_hcd:usb2
> > 225:   57531742          0  IO-APIC-level  eth0,radeon@pci:0000:03:00.0
> > 233:         26          0  IO-APIC-level  eth1
> > NMI:       1661       1397
> > LOC:  147579966  147579949
> > ERR:          0
> > MIS:          0
> > 
> > My question is whether it is possible that eth0's interrupts go to CPU0
> > and radeon's to CPU1, and if so, how I would enable that. Alternatively,
> > is it possible to just move eth0 or radeon to a different interrupt?
> 
> Generally (at least in APIC mode) the IRQ assignments are based on 
> hard-wired interrupt lines on the board. In this case, the slots that 
> the Radeon and eth0 card are in likely share a physical interrupt line 
> and there is no way to separate them in software. You can try moving the 
>   card(s) to different slots..
> 

If the radeon and/or the Ethernet driver support MSI, that would split
out the IRQ's as well.

-- 
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>

  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-05 19:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <fa.21iotKLTgoLpkKhrbSxrjy5v7hM@ifi.uio.no>
2007-04-05 14:34 ` IRQ splitting Robert Hancock
2007-04-05 19:23   ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2007-04-05 20:37     ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-05 19:45       ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-04-05 10:40 Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-05 12:13 ` Jiri Kosina
2007-04-05 13:11   ` Mark Hounschell
2007-04-05 14:14 ` Lennart Sorensen

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