> That's true, but we are talking about software state so in some sense > it might be better that the affinity-to-be is reported to the user in > this case. > > Delayed register updates are an implementation detail the user does > not need to know about here.
This patch should fix it. -Andi Report the pending irq if available in smp_affinity Otherwise smp_affinity would only update after the next interrupt on x86 systems. Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: linux/kernel/irq/proc.c =================================================================== --- linux.orig/kernel/irq/proc.c +++ linux/kernel/irq/proc.c @@ -19,7 +19,14 @@ static struct proc_dir_entry *root_irq_d static int irq_affinity_read_proc(char *page, char **start, off_t off, int count, int *eof, void *data) { - int len = cpumask_scnprintf(page, count, irq_desc[(long)data].affinity); + struct irq_desc *desc = irq_desc + (long)data; + cpumask_t *mask = &desc->affinity; + int len; +#ifdef CONFIG_GENERIC_PENDING_IRQ + if (desc->status & IRQ_MOVE_PENDING) + mask = &desc->pending_mask; +#endif + len = cpumask_scnprintf(page, count, *mask); if (count - len < 2) return -EINVAL; - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html