Re: 2.6.2-rc1 / ACPI sleep / irqbalance / kirqd / pentium 4 HTproblems on Uniwill N258SA0

From: Zwane Mwaikambo
Date: Sun Jan 25 2004 - 14:53:14 EST


On Sun, 25 Jan 2004, Huw Rogers wrote:

> irqbalance just locks up the machine totally, hard power-off needed, no
> traces in the logs. Probably some issue (race?) with it writing to
> /proc/irq/X/smp_affinity. And how is irqbalance supposed to play with
> kirqd anyway? Grepping this list and others doesn't give any kind of an
> answer. But disabling it gives all interrupts to cpu0 (looking at
> /proc/interrupts). kirqd apparently only balances between CPU packages,
> not between HT siblings (info gleaned from this list).

Does this happen with the 'noirqbalance' kernel parameter?
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