Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263483AbUDMNqN (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Apr 2004 09:46:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263480AbUDMNqN (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Apr 2004 09:46:13 -0400 Received: from jurand.ds.pg.gda.pl ([153.19.208.2]:26852 "EHLO jurand.ds.pg.gda.pl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263375AbUDMNqM (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Apr 2004 09:46:12 -0400 Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 15:46:10 +0200 (CEST) From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" To: Ross Dickson Cc: Len Brown , christian.kroener@tu-harburg.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: IO-APIC on nforce2 In-Reply-To: <200404131703.09572.ross@datscreative.com.au> Message-ID: References: <200404131117.31306.ross@datscreative.com.au> <1081832914.2253.623.camel@dhcppc4> <200404131703.09572.ross@datscreative.com.au> Organization: Technical University of Gdansk MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1364 Lines: 30 On Tue, 13 Apr 2004, Ross Dickson wrote: > Maciej forwarded me some an override patch he developed for another > architecture where one could spec MP info as kernel args and that worked but > we still had no nmi_debug=1 with the timer_ack=1 situation, which he then > fixed in 2.6.3-mm3 but it got pulled for 2.6.4 > > Maciej, is that override code good to go on latest kernels? I am a novice to > acpi parsing etc. I suppose it should be fine. > Unfortunately spurious interrupts contribute to disconnect rate - and there > are lots of those in XT-PIC mode. I hacked the proc/interrupts code to view > them on irq7 and it was really bad if I used local apic without io-apic. Spurious interrupts are normally recorded in the "ERR" entry in /proc/interrupts, so you shouldn't have to record them separately. And there should be none counted, except perhaps a few arriving upon initialization of the local APIC. -- + Maciej W. Rozycki, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland + +--------------------------------------------------------------+ + e-mail: macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl, PGP key available + - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/