How to change smp_affinity of IRQs assigned to PCI MSI/MSI-X
Issue
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Cannot modify
/proc/irq/IRQ_NUMBER/smp_affinity
:# echo 2 > /proc/irq/45/smp_affinity "bash: echo: write error: Input/output error"
irqbalance
does not work even when providing a mask of CPUs.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
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