On Thursday 01 February 2007 23:32, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Thu, 1 Feb 2007 18:46:00 +0100 "Lapo TIN" <lapolapolapo@xxxxxx> wrote: > > > Dear all, > > I have a problem with IRQs. > > > > My pc has a CPU PentiumD945 (dual core) and a 2.6.19smp kernel. > > I have two video acquisition board (four bt8t8 each) in the only two pci > > slots of my motherboard. Thus I have a total of 8 bttv modules that are > > working together, and the /proc/interrupts is as follows: > > # cat /proc/interrupts > > CPU0 CPU1 > > 0: 13575 0 IO-APIC-edge timer > > 1: 2 0 IO-APIC-edge i8042 > > 4: 11 0 IO-APIC-edge serial > > 8: 1 0 IO-APIC-edge rtc > > 9: 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi acpi > > 12: 4 0 IO-APIC-edge i8042 > > 14: 22286 0 IO-APIC-edge ide0 > > 17: 7073 2097 IO-APIC-fasteoi uhci_hcd:usb5, eth0 > > 18: 2525 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi bttv0, bttv7 > > 19: 2829 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi bttv1, bttv4 > > 20: 2526 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi bttv2, bttv5 > > 21: 2226 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi bttv3, bttv6 The assignment of the interrupt pins from the bttv cards is dictated by how the motherboard routed the physical wires from the PCI slots to the IO APIC pins. Sometimes these can be re-routed by an interrupt router on the board controlled by PIRQ tables or ACPI PCI Interrupt Link devices -- but in the case of a dekstop board with an IOAPIC they are usually just hard coded in a "barber poll" fashion like above, and you will not be able to change them except by moving cards between slots. The complete output from dmesg -s64000 will tell us. -Len > > 22: 2 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi ehci_hcd:usb1, uhci_hcd:usb4 > > 23: 86 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi uhci_hcd:usb2 > > 24: 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi uhci_hcd:usb3 > > NMI: 0 0 > > LOC: 13484 13502 > > ERR: 0 > > MIS: 0 > > You can see that IRQ18 is shared between bttv0 and bttv7, IRQ19 between > > bttv1 and bttv4 and so on. > > > > Sometimes it crashes. It seems a matter of conflict in IRQ. > > With only one video board everything is ok, but with two, they shared irq > > and something goes wrong... > > How can I tell to the kernel to not to share the IRQ for these boards ? > > I think (I don't know if I'm right) that this could be the problem. > > > > I even tried with another motherboard, and doing cat /proc/interrupts the > > situation was the same, except for 'eth0' that was together with bttv0 and > > bttv7... so it was even worst ! it crashes after few minutes. > > > > I tried to read IO-APIC.txt in Documentation/i386/ folder, but I didn't > > understand how to avoid the coupling of IRQ. > > Thanks > > Should be OK. Can you provide us with any kernel output from these crashes? > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-smp" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
