Topic: eee kernel interrupts
On another thread in the forums it was mentioned that one should be sure that the cpu interrupts should be distributed between the available cpu's in a multi-cpu machine.
I assume this includes a multi-core machine. The newer Asus EEE do have an Intel processor with a dual core. It has been pointed out that what prevents the sharing of the interrupts is a kernel config option
CONFIG_ACPI_HOTPLUG_CPU=ythat is set in both the Array kernel and the Ubuntu Intrepid kernel. I thought maybe that when the crunchee 8.10.02 came out it might be different. But no. Even from the live CD here is the output. Asus EEE 1000.
$ sudo more /proc/interrupts
CPU0 CPU1
0: 5786827 0 IO-APIC-edge timer
1: 78 0 IO-APIC-edge i8042
8: 40 0 IO-APIC-edge rtc0
9: 402786 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi acpi
12: 509 0 IO-APIC-edge i8042
14: 0 0 IO-APIC-edge ata_piix
15: 135033 0 IO-APIC-edge ata_piix
16: 27347 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi uhci_hcd:usb4, HDA Intel, i915@pci:0000:00:02.
0
18: 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi uhci_hcd:usb3
19: 624834 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi uhci_hcd:usb2, ra0
23: 36961 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi uhci_hcd:usb1, ehci_hcd:usb5
219: 1 0 none-edge
NMI: 0 0 Non-maskable interrupts
LOC: 2056587 4874692 Local timer interrupts
RES: 376925 454182 Rescheduling interrupts
CAL: 6780 10088 function call interrupts
TLB: 15235 17266 TLB shootdowns
SPU: 0 0 Spurious interrupts
ERR: 0
MIS: 0All processor interrupts handled by CPU 0. My machine is a bit sluggish so it looks as though it is time to learn to compile a custom kernel or am I just more confused that usual?
I will look into it. Meanwhile, do you know if anyone has reported this upstream to Adam McDaniel of Array.org? It would be good to know if there is a fix coming down, before spending too much time on it.
Good work reporting the bug, let us hope it gets fixed upstream.