On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 01:08:46AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > Neil, I just ran into the issue of irqbalance being broken in Debian 7 > 'wheezy'. I don't know why the Debian maintainer upgraded to this > incompatible version, but downgrading would be pretty hard now. > > At <https://github.com/Irqbalance/irqbalance/issues/6> you referred to > the commit that added msi_irqs in sysfs, which looks like it should be > easy to cherry-pick (as we are on 3.2 and it went into 3.3), but also > you mentioned subsequent bug fixes. Was there anything other than this > one: > > commit 424eb391596a38ddf422bee1617e4b9dea60126f > Author: Neil Horman <nhor...@tuxdriver.com> > Date: Tue Jan 3 10:29:54 2012 -0500 > > PCI: msi: fix imbalanced refcount of msi irq sysfs objects > > ? > The initial commit for sysfs msi support and this fix you found above should be suficient to get the newer version of irqbalance working properly. Theres no other major fixes to this area that I recall (until you get to the commit below)
> The other interesting change I see is this one: > > commit 1c51b50c2995f543d145d3bce78029ac9f8ca6b3 > Author: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> > Date: Thu Dec 19 12:30:17 2013 -0800 > > PCI/MSI: Export MSI mode using attributes, not kobjects > > Does the current irqbalance work with both versions of the sysfs > interface? > Yes, we were very careful to ensure that irqbalance works with both variants of the sysfs layout. irqbalance just uses this information in sysfs to identify which irqs belong to which devices, so the move from a directory to attributes isn't visible within irqbalance. You can safely take this patch in the debian kernel. Neil > Ben. > > -- > Ben Hutchings > DNRC Motto: I can please only one person per day. > Today is not your day. Tomorrow isn't looking good either. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
