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From: Adam <adam@××××××××××.au>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing a shared interrupt
Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 10:19:13
Message-Id: 4BF7AF92.8060004@jaftan.com.au
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Preventing a shared interrupt by Grant
1 > Does anyone know how to prevent my "nouveau" video card and "ath" wifi
2 > card from sharing interrupt 19? I can't move the video card slot and
3 > I'd rather not move the wifi card slot if possible.
4 >
5 > BTW, does anyone see any other opportunity for interrupt optimization
6 > here? I'm trying to optimize for video and especially audio, and I'm
7 > using a USB 1.0 sound card.
8 >
9 > # cat /proc/interrupts
10 > CPU0
11 > 0: 473139 IO-APIC-edge timer
12 > 1: 2 IO-APIC-edge i8042
13 > 7: 1 IO-APIC-edge
14 > 8: 127 IO-APIC-edge rtc0
15 > 9: 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi acpi
16 > 12: 3 IO-APIC-edge i8042
17 > 14: 0 IO-APIC-edge ide0
18 > 19: 135597 IO-APIC-fasteoi nouveau, ath
19 > 20: 2 IO-APIC-fasteoi ehci_hcd:usb2
20 > 21: 13860 IO-APIC-fasteoi ehci_hcd:usb1
21 > 22: 971970 IO-APIC-fasteoi ohci_hcd:usb4
22 > 23: 3446 IO-APIC-fasteoi ohci_hcd:usb3
23 > 28: 21524 PCI-MSI-edge ahci
24
25 FWIW a grep of the nouveau source doesnt bring up any hits on MSI, so it
26 looks like the driver doesnt support it yet. Likewise no hits for ath5k,
27 however ath9k does support it.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing a shared interrupt Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com>