echo 5 > /proc/irq/10/smp_affinity means only the first and third (not fourth) cpus can handle irqs That is, cpu0 is the first cpu and cpu2 is the third cpu
Signed-off-by: John Kacur <[email protected]> --- Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index e8d00759bfa5..5b61eeae3f6e 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -725,7 +725,7 @@ IRQ, you can set it by doing: > echo 1 > /proc/irq/10/smp_affinity This means that only the first CPU will handle the IRQ, but you can also echo -5 which means that only the first and fourth CPU can handle the IRQ. +5 which means that only the first and third CPU can handle the IRQ. The contents of each smp_affinity file is the same by default: -- 2.4.11
