Hi Stephen,
I sent your e-mail to the appropriate team inside VMware and they'll take care
of it. Thanks!
On 03/31/2011 09:18 AM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> The vmxnet driver always requests irq with name of 'vmxnet' which
> is incorrect. It causes multiple entries in /proc/interrupts and confuses
> scripts like irqbalance that try and manage smp affinity on network cards.
>
> The fix is simple, just use the standard convention of putting device
> name in the irq name. This applies to all kernel versions.
>
> Also, the 'lp->name' structure element is always constant and no longer
> used and could be eliminated.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemmin...@vyatta.com>
>
> --- a/modules/linux/vmxnet/vmxnet.c 2011-03-31 09:12:30.258151524 -0700
> +++ b/modules/linux/vmxnet/vmxnet.c 2011-03-31 09:12:55.516883147 -0700
> @@ -1915,7 +1915,7 @@ vmxnet_open(struct net_device *dev)
> }
>
> if (dev->irq == 0 || request_irq(dev->irq, &vmxnet_interrupt,
> - COMPAT_IRQF_SHARED, lp->name, (void *)dev))
> {
> + COMPAT_IRQF_SHARED, dev->name, (void
> *)dev)) {
> return -EAGAIN;
> }
--
- Marcelo
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