Joe Korty wrote: > Create /proc/all-interrupts for some architectures. > > Create a version of /proc/interrupts that displays _every_ > IRQ vector, not just those that someone thought might be > interesting, and add an entry in the commentary column > for those vectors which lacked such a comment. > > Rationale: /proc/interrupts is not truly useful unless it > displays every IRQ vector, not just those somebody thought > would be interesting. For example, since /proc/interrupts > does not display the rescheduling interrupt, the occurance > of rescheduling interrupt floods ends up affecting > latencies, yet without an entry in /proc/interrupts, it > is difficult to discern why latencies are being affected. > > Rather than modify /proc/interrupts, this patch creates > a new version of /proc/interrupts, on the off-chance > that adding new lines to /proc/interrupts, and appending > new fields to the end of old lines, might break some > longstanding script. However, these kinds of changes > traditionally do not affect scripts, so it might be > reasonable to fold /proc/all-interrupts back into > /proc/interrupts. I think that would be the right thing to do. We have added things to /proc/interrupts in the past. -hpa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rt-users" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
