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authorMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>2020-05-01 17:37:51 +0200
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>2020-05-15 12:00:56 -0600
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treeb4ff4930b099762724de349e73b85fe1ff731691 /Documentation/IRQ-affinity.txt
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docs: add IRQ documentation at the core-api book
There are 4 IRQ documentation files under Documentation/*.txt. Move them into a new directory (core-api/irq) and add a new index file for it. While here, use a title markup for the Debugging section of the irq-domain.rst file. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/2da7485c3718e1442e6b4c2dd66857b776e8899b.1588345503.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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-================
-SMP IRQ affinity
-================
-
-ChangeLog:
- - Started by Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
- - Update by Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
-
-
-/proc/irq/IRQ#/smp_affinity and /proc/irq/IRQ#/smp_affinity_list specify
-which target CPUs are permitted for a given IRQ source. It's a bitmask
-(smp_affinity) or cpu list (smp_affinity_list) 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 of all cpus.
-
-/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.
-
-Here is an example of limiting that same irq (44) to cpus 1024 to 1031::
-
- [root@moon 44]# echo 1024-1031 > smp_affinity_list
- [root@moon 44]# cat smp_affinity_list
- 1024-1031
-
-Note that to do this with a bitmask would require 32 bitmasks of zero
-to follow the pertinent one.