Re: /proc/stat's intr field looks odd, although /proc/interrupts seems correct

[Randy.Dunlap]

> On Sun, 2003-08-10 at 20:48, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
>
>> Yes, for most architectures, it prints interrupts from 0 thru NR_IRQS:
>> 	for (i = 0 ; i < NR_IRQS ; i++)
>> 		len += sprintf(page + len, " %u", kstat_irqs(i));
>> and NR_IRQS varies depending on the kernel build options, but (for x86) is
>> usually either 16 or 224.
>
> Eww. So I guess on SMP, it is 224.

Yes.

> Might be nice to only print lines that are registered, like
> /proc/interrupts. But then you have no way of knowing which field is which
> interrupt line.  Ugh.
>
> How can we expect anything to parse that line?

Ugh-ly?  We can move it to sysfs and then change the file format
to intnum:count pairs (e.g.).

~Randy



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