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Date:      Thu, 01 Oct 2009 08:12:35 -0500
From:      Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua>
Cc:        arch@FreeBSD.org, John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: Interrupt Descriptions
Message-ID:  <1254402755.2320.60.camel@balrog.2hip.net>
In-Reply-To: <4AC4A567.7050204@icyb.net.ua>
References:  <200909301732.20589.jhb@freebsd.org> <4AC4A567.7050204@icyb.net.ua>

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On Thu, 2009-10-01 at 15:49 +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> 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)?

vmstat -i already chops off lots of stuff if there are very many shared
irqs.

robert.

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Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org>
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