> cat /proc/irq/0/smp_affinity
ffffffff
+There is an alternate interface, smp_affinity_list which allows specifying
+a cpu range instead of a bitmask:
+
+ > cat /proc/irq/0/smp_affinity_list
+ 1024-1031
+
The default_smp_affinity mask applies to all non-active IRQs, which are the
IRQs which have not yet been allocated/activated, and hence which lack a
/proc/irq/[0-9]* directory.
include information about any possible driver locality preference.
prof_cpu_mask specifies which CPUs are to be profiled by the system wide
-profiler. Default value is ffffffff (all cpus).
+profiler. Default value is ffffffff (all cpus if there are only 32 of them).
The way IRQs are routed is handled by the IO-APIC, and it's Round Robin
between all the CPUs which are allowed to handle it. As usual the kernel has
more info than you and does a better job than you, so the defaults are the
-best choice for almost everyone.
+best choice for almost everyone. [Note this applies only to those IO-APIC's
+that support "Round Robin" interrupt distribution.]
There are three more important subdirectories in /proc: net, scsi, and sys.
The general rule is that the contents, or even the existence of these