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Date:      Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:49:43 +0300
From:      Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        arch@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Interrupt Descriptions
Message-ID:  <4AC4A567.7050204@icyb.net.ua>
In-Reply-To: <200909301732.20589.jhb@freebsd.org>
References:  <200909301732.20589.jhb@freebsd.org>

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on 01/10/2009 00:32 John Baldwin said the following:
> A few folks have asked recently for the ability to add descriptive strings to 
> registered interrupt handlers.  This is especially true since the advent of 
> MSI with multiple interrupts per device.  I hacked up a prototype today that 
> adds a new 'bus_describe_intr()' that takes the IRQ resource, the void * 
> cookie returned by bus_setup_intr() and var args description and appends that 
> to the interrupt name in the thread and vmstat -i info.  The current patch 
> only has the MI bits and the MD bits for amd64 as well as a sample change to 
> the igb(4) driver.
> 
> The patch is at http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/patches/intr_describe.patch.
> 
> An example from this patch is:
> 
>> vmstat -i
> interrupt                          total       rate
> irq1: atkbd0                           8          0
> irq4: uart0                          751          5
> irq6: fdc0                             6          0
> irq14: ata0                           36          0
> irq20: uhci0                          20          0
> irq23: uhci3 ehci0                     2          0
> irq28: mpt0                         1661         11
> irq256: igb0:tx 0                    880          6
> irq257: igb0:rx 0                   1098          7
> irq258: igb0:link                      3          0
> irq259: igb1:tx 0                      1          0
> irq260: igb1:rx 0                    134          0
> irq261: igb1:link                      3          0
> 

Example above doesn't demonstrate what happens when there are shared interrupts.
Would it still look nice (with sufficiently long descriptions)?

-- 
Andriy Gapon



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