Re: Every IRQ is listed as stray in 1.1-CURRENT

[Matthew Dillon <dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

    I'm not sure why you sometimes get them and sometimes don't, but
    all they are are placemarkers.  Internally the system has a 'FAST'
    and a 'SLOW' interrupt vector for each irq, which is why you are seeing
    the irqs listed twice, but the strays don't actually do anything unless
    a real stray interrupt occurs (and then you get a count).

    So, basically, just ignore them.  Stray interrupts generally occur
    when the kernel has not properly routed interrupts during boot (which
    can happen for all sorts of reasons on modern machines, especially
    laptops).  The stray functions are like safeties in the end-zone... they
    prevent the machine from livelocking on an improperly routed interrupt.
    IRQ7 will also sometimes generate stray interrupts.

    Everything else looks fine.  The clock interrupt works very differently
    in DragonFly then in FreeBSD.  FreeBSD uses a fixed periodic timer
    interrupt while DragonFly uses a fine-grained variable-interval timer
    interrupt.  The number of interrupts/sec you get will depend on a
    number of factors but will generally not exceed 250 interrupts/sec.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>


:Not sure if this is an actual problem or just a cosmetic visual
:holdover from the FBSD sources, but every IRQ on my laptops is listed
:twice:  once as stray, once as associated with a device.  This occurs
:with ACPI enabled and disabled.
:
:Here's a sample (ACPI disabled):
:[fcash@spark  ~]$ vmstat -i
:interrupt                   total       rate
:???                             0          0
:stray irq0                      0          0
:stray irq1                      0          0
:stray irq2                      0          0
:stray irq3                      0          0
:stray irq4                      0          0
:stray irq5                      0          0
:stray irq6                      0          0
:stray irq7                      0          0
:stray irq8                      0          0
:stray irq9                      0          0
:stray irq10                     0          0
:stray irq11                     0          0
:stray irq12                     0          0
:stray irq13                     0          0
:stray irq14                     0          0
:stray irq15                     0          0
:cbb0 irq10                      0          0
:cbb1 irq5                       0          0
:ata0 irq14                    989         31
:ata1 irq15                      5          0
:uhci0 irq11                     0          0
:mux irq5                        0          0
:mux irq11                     106          3
:fdc0 irq6                       0          0
:atkbd0 irq1                    54          1
:psm0 irq12                      0          0
:ppc0 irq7                       0          0
:clk irq0                     6568        211
:Total                        7722        249
:
:Every now and then I can boot and have a list without stray IRQs, but
:I can find no rhyme or reason for it.
:
:I've also noticed that the rate for the clock is entirely random
:running from 180-ish to 225-ish.  Under FreeBSD 5-CURRENT, it was
:always 127.
:
:This is on a 1.1-CURRENT system with sources from this morning (just
:finished a quickworld/kernel build).
:
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