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diff --git a/Documentation/ia64/IRQ-redir.txt b/Documentation/ia64/IRQ-redir.txt deleted file mode 100644 index f7bd72261283..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/ia64/IRQ-redir.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,69 +0,0 @@ -IRQ affinity on IA64 platforms ------------------------------- - 07.01.2002, Erich Focht <efocht@ess.nec.de> - - -By writing to /proc/irq/IRQ#/smp_affinity the interrupt routing can be -controlled. The behavior on IA64 platforms is slightly different from -that described in Documentation/IRQ-affinity.txt for i386 systems. - -Because of the usage of SAPIC mode and physical destination mode the -IRQ target is one particular CPU and cannot be a mask of several -CPUs. Only the first non-zero bit is taken into account. - - -Usage examples: - -The target CPU has to be specified as a hexadecimal CPU mask. The -first non-zero bit is the selected CPU. This format has been kept for -compatibility reasons with i386. - -Set the delivery mode of interrupt 41 to fixed and route the -interrupts to CPU #3 (logical CPU number) (2^3=0x08): - echo "8" >/proc/irq/41/smp_affinity - -Set the default route for IRQ number 41 to CPU 6 in lowest priority -delivery mode (redirectable): - echo "r 40" >/proc/irq/41/smp_affinity - -The output of the command - cat /proc/irq/IRQ#/smp_affinity -gives the target CPU mask for the specified interrupt vector. If the CPU -mask is preceded by the character "r", the interrupt is redirectable -(i.e. lowest priority mode routing is used), otherwise its route is -fixed. - - - -Initialization and default behavior: - -If the platform features IRQ redirection (info provided by SAL) all -IO-SAPIC interrupts are initialized with CPU#0 as their default target -and the routing is the so called "lowest priority mode" (actually -fixed SAPIC mode with hint). The XTP chipset registers are used as hints -for the IRQ routing. Currently in Linux XTP registers can have three -values: - - minimal for an idle task, - - normal if any other task runs, - - maximal if the CPU is going to be switched off. -The IRQ is routed to the CPU with lowest XTP register value, the -search begins at the default CPU. Therefore most of the interrupts -will be handled by CPU #0. - -If the platform doesn't feature interrupt redirection IOSAPIC fixed -routing is used. The target CPUs are distributed in a round robin -manner. IRQs will be routed only to the selected target CPUs. Check -with - cat /proc/interrupts - - - -Comments: - -On large (multi-node) systems it is recommended to route the IRQs to -the node to which the corresponding device is connected. -For systems like the NEC AzusA we get IRQ node-affinity for free. This -is because usually the chipsets on each node redirect the interrupts -only to their own CPUs (as they cannot see the XTP registers on the -other nodes). - |