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author | Timothy Pearson <tpearson@raptorengineering.com> | 2017-08-23 14:45:25 -0500 |
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committer | Timothy Pearson <tpearson@raptorengineering.com> | 2017-08-23 14:45:25 -0500 |
commit | fcbb27b0ec6dcbc5a5108cb8fb19eae64593d204 (patch) | |
tree | 22962a4387943edc841c72a4e636a068c66d58fd /Documentation/IRQ-affinity.txt | |
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Initial import of modified Linux 2.6.28 tree
Original upstream URL:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git | branch linux-2.6.28.y
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diff --git a/Documentation/IRQ-affinity.txt b/Documentation/IRQ-affinity.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b4a615b --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/IRQ-affinity.txt @@ -0,0 +1,56 @@ +ChangeLog: + Started by Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> + Update by Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com> + +SMP IRQ affinity + +/proc/irq/IRQ#/smp_affinity specifies which target CPUs are permitted +for a given IRQ source. It's a bitmask of allowed CPUs. It's not allowed +to turn off all CPUs, and if an IRQ controller does not support IRQ +affinity then the value will not change from the default 0xffffffff. + +/proc/irq/default_smp_affinity specifies default affinity mask that applies +to all non-active IRQs. Once IRQ is allocated/activated its affinity bitmask +will be set to the default mask. It can then be changed as described above. +Default mask is 0xffffffff. + +Here is an example of restricting IRQ44 (eth1) to CPU0-3 then restricting +it to CPU4-7 (this is an 8-CPU SMP box): + +[root@moon 44]# cd /proc/irq/44 +[root@moon 44]# cat smp_affinity +ffffffff + +[root@moon 44]# echo 0f > smp_affinity +[root@moon 44]# cat smp_affinity +0000000f +[root@moon 44]# ping -f h +PING hell (195.4.7.3): 56 data bytes +... +--- hell ping statistics --- +6029 packets transmitted, 6027 packets received, 0% packet loss +round-trip min/avg/max = 0.1/0.1/0.4 ms +[root@moon 44]# cat /proc/interrupts | grep 'CPU\|44:' + CPU0 CPU1 CPU2 CPU3 CPU4 CPU5 CPU6 CPU7 + 44: 1068 1785 1785 1783 0 0 0 0 IO-APIC-level eth1 + +As can be seen from the line above IRQ44 was delivered only to the first four +processors (0-3). +Now lets restrict that IRQ to CPU(4-7). + +[root@moon 44]# echo f0 > smp_affinity +[root@moon 44]# cat smp_affinity +000000f0 +[root@moon 44]# ping -f h +PING hell (195.4.7.3): 56 data bytes +.. +--- hell ping statistics --- +2779 packets transmitted, 2777 packets received, 0% packet loss +round-trip min/avg/max = 0.1/0.5/585.4 ms +[root@moon 44]# cat /proc/interrupts | 'CPU\|44:' + CPU0 CPU1 CPU2 CPU3 CPU4 CPU5 CPU6 CPU7 + 44: 1068 1785 1785 1783 1784 1069 1070 1069 IO-APIC-level eth1 + +This time around IRQ44 was delivered only to the last four processors. +i.e counters for the CPU0-3 did not change. + |