Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 09:40:13 -0700
From: Gary Hade <garyhade@us.ibm.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Gary Hade <garyhade@us.ibm.com>, mingo@elte.hu, mingo@redhat.com,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de, x86@kernel.org,
       ebiederm@xmission.com, yinghai@kernel.org, lcm@us.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [RESEND] [PATCH v2] [BUGFIX] x86/x86_64: fix CPU offlining
	triggered "active" device IRQ interrruption
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On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 09:51:27PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Gary Hade wrote:
> > Impact: Eliminates an issue that can leave the system in an
> >         unusable state.
> > 
> > This patch addresses an issue where device generated IRQs
> > are no longer seen by the kernel following IRQ affinity
> > migration while the device is generating IRQs at a high rate.
> > 
> 
> This patch doesn't seem to apply to current mainline.
> 
> What is your base?

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip.git
which Ingo encouraged me to use because it contained some of 
Yinghai Lu's recent changes that hadn't reached mainline yet.

Gary

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