Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269120AbUIXUZk (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Sep 2004 16:25:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269129AbUIXUZa (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Sep 2004 16:25:30 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:3001 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269119AbUIXUZF (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Sep 2004 16:25:05 -0400 Message-ID: <4154828F.6090205@pobox.com> Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 16:24:47 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Zwane Mwaikambo CC: Suresh Siddha , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, asit.k.mallick@intel.com Subject: Re: [Patch 0/2] Disable SW irqbalance/irqaffinity for E7520/E7320/E7525 References: <20040923233410.A19555@unix-os.sc.intel.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 940 Lines: 29 Zwane Mwaikambo wrote: > 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? That's my preference. Or, compile with !CONFIG_KIRQD -- the recommended setting for modern distros, since irqbalanced(1) is shipped. Jeff - 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/