Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268817AbUIXPNd (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Sep 2004 11:13:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268800AbUIXPNd (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Sep 2004 11:13:33 -0400 Received: from bhhdoa.org.au ([216.17.101.199]:58380 "EHLO bhhdoa.org.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269140AbUIXPGj (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Sep 2004 11:06:39 -0400 Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 18:05:36 +0300 (EAT) From: Zwane Mwaikambo To: Suresh Siddha Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, asit.k.mallick@intel.com Subject: Re: [Patch 0/2] Disable SW irqbalance/irqaffinity for E7520/E7320/E7525 In-Reply-To: <20040923233410.A19555@unix-os.sc.intel.com> Message-ID: References: <20040923233410.A19555@unix-os.sc.intel.com> 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: 772 Lines: 20 On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Suresh Siddha wrote: > As part of the workaround for the "Interrupt message re-ordering across > hub interface" errata (page #16 in > http://developer.intel.com/design/chipsets/specupdt/30288402.pdf), > BIOS may enable hardware IRQ balancing for Lindenhurst/Tumwater based chipset > platforms. Software based irq_balance/irq_affinity should be disabled if > hardware IRQ balancing is enabled. Can we avoid those tests? Like not starting the irq balancer code at all with those chipsets? Thanks, Zwane - 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/