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diff --git a/Documentation/IRQ-affinity.txt b/Documentation/IRQ-affinity.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 29da5000836a..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/IRQ-affinity.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,70 +0,0 @@ -================ -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. |