default IRQ affinity change in v2.6.27 (breaking several SMP PPC based systems)
Chris Snook
csnook at redhat.com
Sat Oct 25 02:17:15 EST 2008
Kumar Gala wrote:
> It appears the default IRQ affinity changes from being just cpu 0 to all
> cpu's. This breaks several PPC SMP systems in which only a single
> processor is allowed to be selected as the destination of the IRQ.
>
> What is the right answer in fixing this? Should we:
>
> cpumask_t irq_default_affinity = 1;
>
> instead of
>
> cpumask_t irq_default_affinity = CPU_MASK_ALL?
On those systems, perhaps, but not universally. There's plenty of hardware
where the physical topology of the machine is abstracted away from the OS, and
you need to leave the mask wide open and let the APIC figure out where to map
the IRQs. Ideally, we should probably make this decision based on the APIC, but
if there's no PPC hardware that uses this technique, then it would suffice to
make this arch-specific.
-- Chris
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