Hi all, here's a topic which came up on the SCSI ML (cf thread '[RFC 0/2] mpt3sas/megaraid_sas: irq poll and load balancing of reply queue'). When doing I/O tests on a machine with more CPUs than MSIx vectors provided by the HBA we can easily setup a scenario where one CPU is submitting I/O and the other one is completing I/O. Which will result in the latter CPU being stuck in the interrupt completion routine for basically ever, resulting in the lockup detector kicking in. How should these situations be handled? Should it be made the responsibility of the drivers, ensuring that the interrupt completion routine is terminated after a certain time? Should it be made the resposibility of the upper layers? Should it be the responsibility of the interrupt mapping code? Can/should interrupt polling be used in these situations? Cheers, Hannes -- Dr. Hannes Reinecke Teamlead Storage & Networking hare@xxxxxxx +49 911 74053 688 SUSE LINUX GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg GF: F. Imendörffer, J. Smithard, J. Guild, D. Upmanyu, G. Norton HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg)
