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Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 20:52:48 +0200 (CEST)
From: Steffen Persvold <sp@scali.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Subject: Re: SMP P4 APIC/interrupt balancing
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On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Ingo Molnar wrote:

>
> On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, James Bourne wrote:
>
> > After Ingo forwarded me his original patch (I found his patch via a web
> > based medium, which had converted all of the left shifts to compares,
> > and now I'm very glad it didn't boot...) and the system is booted and is
> > balancing most of the interrupts at least.  Here's the current output of
> > /proc/interrupts
> >
> > brynhild:bash$ cat /proc/interrupts
> >            CPU0       CPU1
> >   0:     171414          0    IO-APIC-edge  timer
> >   1:          3          2    IO-APIC-edge  keyboard
> >   2:          0          0          XT-PIC  cascade
> >   8:          1          0    IO-APIC-edge  rtc
> >  18:          8          7   IO-APIC-level  aic7xxx
> >  19:      13566      12799   IO-APIC-level  eth0
> >  20:          9          7   IO-APIC-level  aic7xxx
> >  21:          9          7   IO-APIC-level  aic7xxx
> >  27:       1572       5371   IO-APIC-level  megaraid
> > NMI:          0          0
> > LOC:     171315     171251
> > ERR:          0
> > MIS:          0
>
> it's looking good.
>
> > So, the timer isn't being balanced still, others are (is there a
> > specific case in your patch for irq 0 (< 1)?  I couldn't see it but it
> > almost looks as though it's being missed..)
>
> it's a separate bug, solved by a separate patch.
>
> 	Ingo
>

Ingo,

Are any of these patches going into the mainline kernel soon ?

Regards,
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