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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index ade4e6ec23e0..765e4274ba71 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -1933,9 +1933,31 @@ <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is "number of CPUs in system - 1". - The format of <cpu-list> is described above. - + managed_irq + + Isolate from being targeted by managed interrupts + which have an interrupt mask containing isolated + CPUs. The affinity of managed interrupts is + handled by the kernel and cannot be changed via + the /proc/irq/* interfaces. + + This isolation is best effort and only effective + if the automatically assigned interrupt mask of a + device queue contains isolated and housekeeping + CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such + interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU + so that IO submitted on the housekeeping CPU + cannot disturb the isolated CPU. + + If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated + CPUs then this parameter has no effect on the + interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are + only delivered when tasks running on those + isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted on + housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those + queues. + The format of <cpu-list> is described above. iucv= [HW,NET] |