Re: [PATCH] irq: revert non-working patch to affinity defaults

2015-04-04 Thread John
On 4/4/2015 2:34 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote: Well, as a starter, if you can reproduce it on a system (I cannot), How many cores does your current test system have, Ingo? I remember that I did not see this on a machine with 24 cores, but did see it on one with 36. My initial thought was that it mig

Re: [PATCH] irq: revert non-working patch to affinity defaults

2015-04-04 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Jesse Brandeburg wrote: > > Now this is just a small annoyance that should not really matter - > > it would be nice to figure out the real reason for why the irqs > > move back to CPU#0. > > > > In theory the same could happen to 'irqbalanced' as well, if it > > calls shortly after an irq

Re: [PATCH] irq: revert non-working patch to affinity defaults

2015-04-03 Thread Jesse Brandeburg
On Fri, 3 Apr 2015 08:55:57 +0200 Ingo Molnar wrote: > So the original commit also has the problem that it unnecessary > drops/retakes the descriptor lock: > > > irq_put_desc_unlock(desc, flags); > > - /* set the initial affinity to prevent every interrupt being on CPU0 */ > > - if (m) >

Re: [PATCH] irq: revert non-working patch to affinity defaults

2015-04-02 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Jesse Brandeburg wrote: > I've seen a couple of reports of issues since commit e2e64a932556 ("genirq: > Set initial affinity in irq_set_affinity_hint()") where the > affinity for the interrupt when programmed via > /proc/irq//smp_affinity will not be able to stick. It changes back > to some p