Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755765AbYKEJ7V (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Nov 2008 04:59:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754168AbYKEJ7F (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Nov 2008 04:59:05 -0500 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:45953 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751184AbYKEJ7D (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Nov 2008 04:59:03 -0500 Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2008 01:58:38 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <20081105.015838.25391202.davem@davemloft.net> To: mchan@broadcom.com Cc: dada1@cosmosbay.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [BUG] linux-2.6.28-rc3 regression: IRQ smp_affinities not respected From: David Miller In-Reply-To: References: <49113E31.8080106@cosmosbay.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.1 on Emacs 22.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 826 Lines: 21 From: "Michael Chan" Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 22:45:43 -0800 > I believe this may be the patch that broke it: > > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=ce6fce4295ba727b36fdc73040e444bd1aae64cd > > I don't remember all the details, but the Broadcom 5708 chip is > affected because it does not support MSI per-vector masking. > > One way to get around is to disable MSI with bnx2 parameter > disable_msi=1. On first glance my reaction is that I think that patch should be reverted, given what the tradeoff appears to be. -- 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/