Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 10:28:32 -0500 (EST)
From: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Huw Rogers <count0@localnet.com>
cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, linux-laptop@mobilix.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.2-rc1 / ACPI sleep / irqbalance / kirqd / pentium 4 HT
 problems on Uniwill N258SA0
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On Sun, 25 Jan 2004, Huw Rogers wrote:

> irqbalance just locks up the machine totally, hard power-off needed, no
> traces in the logs. Probably some issue (race?) with it writing to
> /proc/irq/X/smp_affinity. And how is irqbalance supposed to play with
> kirqd anyway? Grepping this list and others doesn't give any kind of an
> answer. But disabling it gives all interrupts to cpu0 (looking at
> /proc/interrupts). kirqd apparently only balances between CPU packages,
> not between HT siblings (info gleaned from this list).

Does this happen with the 'noirqbalance' kernel parameter?
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