Re: [PATCH][RFC] x86: Fix the irq affinity in fixup_cpus

From: Chen Yu
Date: Wed Jul 05 2017 - 10:10:19 EST


On Wed, Jul 05, 2017 at 08:46:08AM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Jul 2017, Chen Yu wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 04, 2017 at 10:50:33AM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > Here's the test result for affinity:
> > # uname -r
> > 4.12.0+
> > # cat /proc/irq/32/smp_affinity
> > 00000000,80000000
> > # echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu31/online
> > # cat /proc/irq/32/smp_affinity
> > 00000000,ffffffff
> > Looks like cpu31 is till included in the irq mask.
>
> Yes, because the offline broke affinity and now it's reset to the default
> affinity mask. /proc/irq/*/affinity is the affinity which is allowed by the
> admin, not the one which is effective.
>
> Look at /proc/irq/32/effective_affinity to see where it's really routed to.
>
ok, got it, this is normal now.
cat /proc/irq/32/effective_affinity
00000000,00000001

Thanks,
Yu