Re: [PATCH 1/5] cpumask: update irq_desc to use cpumask_var_t

From: Yinghai Lu
Date: Thu Jan 08 2009 - 14:33:39 EST


Mike Travis wrote:
> Yinghai Lu wrote:
> ...
>>> Or am I missing your point?
>> static void init_copy_one_irq_desc(int irq, struct irq_desc *old_desc,
>> struct irq_desc *desc, int cpu)
>> {
>> memcpy(desc, old_desc, sizeof(struct irq_desc));
>>
>>
>> will overwrite new_desc->affinity and pending_mask
>>
>> YH
>
> Yup, apparently I was missing your point (banging on head once more).
>
> Thanks for spotting this!
>
> Ingo - what's the state of tip/cpus4096? Shall I push this as an
> append patch, or redo the original so bisectability works.
>
> Also, Yinghai - would you know of a straight forward way to test
> the irq migration? I have taken cpus offline and back online
> but wasn't sure if any irq's were being moved off of cpu 0 which
> cannot be taken offline.

use echo "mask" > /proc/irq/xxx/smp_affinity to change affinity

and check /proc/interrupts and in /sys/log/messages i will said allocate new irq desc on some other node/cpu.

YH
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