This command:
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 <jkacur@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1466168715-8410-1-git-send-email-jkacur@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
> 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: