Re: [Patch 0/2] Disable SW irqbalance/irqaffinity for E7520/E7320/E7525

From: Zwane Mwaikambo
Date: Fri Sep 24 2004 - 10:16:10 EST


On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Suresh Siddha wrote:

> As part of the workaround for the "Interrupt message re-ordering across
> hub interface" errata (page #16 in
> http://developer.intel.com/design/chipsets/specupdt/30288402.pdf),
> BIOS may enable hardware IRQ balancing for Lindenhurst/Tumwater based chipset
> platforms. Software based irq_balance/irq_affinity should be disabled if
> hardware IRQ balancing is enabled.

Can we avoid those tests? Like not starting the irq balancer code at all
with those chipsets?

Thanks,
Zwane

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