irqban questions

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Thanks Neil, policyscript looks promising.  From the manpage, irqbalance
will understand "ban, balance_level, and numa_node", so I don't suppose
the policyscript can provide the smp_affinity directly?

-- Joe

On 06/24/2016 04:43 PM, Neil Horman wrote:
> Hey Joe,
> 
>      You have a few choices.  You can do exactly what you are describing
> above, or you can use the policy-script option.
> 
> The option you provide, one in which you compute the irqs you want to
> ignore (or ban, in the irqbalance man page parlance) in the sysconfig
> file is not really used that often, but might be handy in some cases.
> 
> The more common method is using the policyscrpt option, in which you
> provide irqbalance with the name of a script to run for each discovered
> irq.  The script accepts the device sysfs path and irq number as
> arguments, and you can echo "ban=1" from it to tell irqbalance to
> ban/ignore the corresponding irq.  It should be documented in the man page
> 
> Neil
> 
> 
> On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 4:35 PM Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence at stratus.com
> <mailto:joe.lawrence at stratus.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi Neil et al,
> 
>     I was wondering about the best way to configure irqbalance to ignore
>     particular IRQs without hard-coding their IRQ numbers into
>     /etc/sysconfig/irqbalance or manually starting the daemon.
> 
>     I was wondering if something like this would work:
> 
>        IRQBALANCE_ARGS="--banirq=$(get IRQ1#) --banirq=$(get IRQ2#)"
> 
>     or better yet:
> 
>       IRQBALANCE_ARGS="--banirq=desc1 --banirq=desc2"
> 
>     where descX would be the IRQ description.
> 
> 
>     Alternatively, is there anyway to mark irqs as banned once the daemon
>     has already started?
> 
> 
>     Thanks,
> 
>     -- Joe
> 



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