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authorDimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>2010-03-11 14:08:56 -0800
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2010-03-24 14:10:03 +0100
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genirq: Expose irq_desc->node in proc/irq
Expose irq_desc->node as /proc/irq/*/node. This file provides device hardware locality information for apps desiring to include hardware locality in irq mapping decisions. Signed-off-by: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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@@ -566,6 +566,10 @@ The default_smp_affinity mask applies to all non-active IRQs, which are the
IRQs which have not yet been allocated/activated, and hence which lack a
/proc/irq/[0-9]* directory.
+The node file on an SMP system shows the node to which the device using the IRQ
+reports itself as being attached. This hardware locality information does not
+include information about any possible driver locality preference.
+
prof_cpu_mask specifies which CPUs are to be profiled by the system wide
profiler. Default value is ffffffff (all cpus).