Re: SMP IRQ management issues in 2.4.x

[Alan Cox]

> > Can you post both 2.2 and 2.4 tables for comparison
> I am afraid this will get slightly problematic since I upgraded several system components (LVM update and some ext2->ext3 partition changes amongst others) which would probably make booting back into a working 2.2 system a rather adventurous task.
> I think I'll try to do it tomorrow, however. Hope nothing gets broken.

Don't worry about it then - that was mostly to get a feel for things.

> Mar 21 09:56:41 localhost kernel: hde: write_intr: status=0xd0 { Busy }
> Mar 21 09:56:41 localhost kernel: ide2: reset: success
> Mar 21 09:56:41 localhost kernel: hde: status error: status=0x58 { DriveReady                                                     SeekComplete DataRequest }

That doesnt look like an interrupt problem to be honest. Perhaps nvdriver
is triggering something else

(the Busy is the drive saying its still waiting for something)