From 92d6b71ab906be706f3679353b30a8d2c3831144 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dimitri Sivanich Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:08:56 -0800 Subject: genirq: Expose irq_desc->node in proc/irq Expose irq_desc->node as /proc/irq/*/node. This file provides device hardware locality information for apps desiring to include hardware locality in irq mapping decisions. Signed-off-by: Dimitri Sivanich Cc: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner --- Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems') diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index a4f30fa..6507d2a 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -566,6 +566,10 @@ The default_smp_affinity mask applies to all non-active IRQs, which are the IRQs which have not yet been allocated/activated, and hence which lack a /proc/irq/[0-9]* directory. +The node file on an SMP system shows the node to which the device using the IRQ +reports itself as being attached. This hardware locality information does not +include information about any possible driver locality preference. + prof_cpu_mask specifies which CPUs are to be profiled by the system wide profiler. Default value is ffffffff (all cpus). -- cgit v1.1