Re: storm of stray interrupts

From: John Baldwin <jhb_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 16:16:49 -0500
On Wednesday 11 February 2004 04:04 pm, Petr Holub wrote:
> > Wrong, his BIOS just sucks and doesn't provide info on how to route
> > drm0's interrupt when using ACPI.  drm0 is routed to IRQ 16, but we end
> > up using the ATPIC interrupt 11 to try and route it instead due to his
> > broken BIOS.  Since PCI interrupts are level triggered, this means that
> > as soon as drm0 interrupts, it storms on IRQ 16 since drm0's ISR never
> > gets called.
>
> OK---thanks. I've disabled ACPI (since disabling APIC results in loss of
> SMP) and it works fine (except for no virtual hyperthreaded processors).
> BTW: would it be possible to make drm use IRQ 16 by hinting (e.g. in
> device.hints)?

Not currently, no.  If you have HTT enabled in your BIOS, you can use the 
MPTABLE_FORCE_HTT kernel option to get your virtual processors back.

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Received on Wed Feb 11 2004 - 12:37:31 UTC

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