Re: IRQs in /proc/irq/* that aren't listed in /proc/interrupts?

[Thomas Gleixner]

Chris,

On Mon, Oct 12 2020 at 12:40, Chris Friesen wrote:
> On one of my X86-64 systems /proc/interrupts starts with the following 
> interrupts (per-cpu info snipped):
>
>    0:      IR-IO-APIC-edge      timer
>     4:      IR-IO-APIC-edge      serial
>     8:      IR-IO-APIC-edge      rtc0
>     9:      IR-IO-APIC-fasteoi   acpi
>    17:      IR-IO-APIC-fasteoi   ehci_hcd:usb1, hpilo
>
>
> On this same system /proc/irq shows these interrupts:
>
> 0-15, 17
>
> Is there any way to determine what the interrupts are that aren't listed 
> in /proc/interrupts?

They are simply unused.

> Six of them are affined to all CPUs, and I'm trying to affine as many
> interrupts as possible to housekeeping CPUs to free up application
> CPUs for low-latency operations.

Affining unused and therefore disabled interrupts is a pretty pointless
exercise.

Thanks,

        tglx