Re: PATCH: /proc/irq/ fix

From: Pavel Machek (pavel@suse.cz)
Date: Fri Mar 10 2000 - 04:09:25 EST


Hi!

> > ...and btw it is nice to see if some activity happened on some
> > "unused" irq line: (If you are changing this, making it output unused
> > but active interrupts might be nice, too...)
>
> > 4: 5 XT-PIC
> > 5: 4 XT-PIC pcnet_cs
> > 6: 3 XT-PIC
>
> it's already possible to see unused IRQ stats in /proc/stat, and

It is well hidden in /proc/stat... (I did not know about that, ok.)

> /proc/interrupts is pretty long on bigger IO-APIC systems if all IRQ
> sources are listed. I'm not sure wether we want this.

It might alert people that non-listed interrupts are doing something
strange. And it should not be much bigger than it is now -- there
should not be much "active but currently not used" interrupts.
                                                                Pavel

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