Re: [RESEND] [PATCH v2] [BUGFIX] x86/x86_64: fix CPU offlining triggered "active" device IRQ interrruption

Gary Hade
2009-06-03T16:40:26Z

On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 09:51:27PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Gary Hade wrote:
> > Impact: Eliminates an issue that can leave the system in an
> > unusable state.
> >
> > This patch addresses an issue where device generated IRQs
> > are no longer seen by the kernel following IRQ affinity
> > migration while the device is generating IRQs at a high rate.
> >
>
> This patch doesn't seem to apply to current mainline.
>
> What is your base?

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip.git
which Ingo encouraged me to use because it contained some of
Yinghai Lu's recent changes that hadn't reached mainline yet.

Gary

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