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  1. May 12, 2010
  2. May 03, 2010
    • Peter P Waskiewicz Jr's avatar
      genirq: Add CPU mask affinity hint · e7a297b0
      Peter P Waskiewicz Jr authored
      
      
      This patch adds a cpumask affinity hint to the irq_desc structure,
      along with a registration function and a read-only proc entry for each
      interrupt.
      
      This affinity_hint handle for each interrupt can be used by underlying
      drivers that need a better mechanism to control interrupt affinity.
      The underlying driver can register a cpumask for the interrupt, which
      will allow the driver to provide the CPU mask for the interrupt to
      anything that requests it.  The intent is to extend the userspace
      daemon, irqbalance, to help hint to it a preferred CPU mask to balance
      the interrupt into.
      
      [ tglx: Fixed compile warnings, added WARN_ON, made SMP only ]
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com>
      Cc: davem@davemloft.net
      Cc: arjan@linux.jf.intel.com
      Cc: bhutchings@solarflare.com
      LKML-Reference: <20100430214445.3992.41647.stgit@ppwaskie-hc2.jf.intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      e7a297b0
  3. Apr 13, 2010