Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 24 Sep 2004 16:24:47 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [Patch 0/2] Disable SW irqbalance/irqaffinity for E7520/E7320/E7525 |
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Zwane Mwaikambo wrote: > On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Suresh Siddha wrote: > > >>As part of the workaround for the "Interrupt message re-ordering across >>hub interface" errata (page #16 in >>http://developer.intel.com/design/chipsets/specupdt/30288402.pdf), >>BIOS may enable hardware IRQ balancing for Lindenhurst/Tumwater based chipset >>platforms. Software based irq_balance/irq_affinity should be disabled if >>hardware IRQ balancing is enabled. > > > Can we avoid those tests? Like not starting the irq balancer code at all > with those chipsets?
That's my preference.
Or, compile with !CONFIG_KIRQD -- the recommended setting for modern distros, since irqbalanced(1) is shipped.
Jeff
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