Created attachment 874788 [details] emerge --info I recently discovered in /var/log/messages a lot of /usr/sbin/irqbalance: Cannot change IRQ XX affinity: Input/output error According to upstream, this is expected: https://github.com/Irqbalance/irqbalance/issues/271 The upstream suggestion is to ban the irqs. This should be done, I suppose, in /etc/conf.d/irqbalance, where the variable "IRQBALANCE_BANNED_INTERRUPTS" should be populated with IRQs to ban. But, as far as I can thell, such a variable is not used, nor is mentioned in the man page -- where the indications for banning an IRQ are to indicate them one by one. I tried to populate IRQBALANCE_BANNED_INTERRUPTS both with comma- and space-separated values, but the messages are still present after launching the service.
May need to pass them as extra args like https://github.com/Irqbalance/irqbalance/blob/d08fb4d1b5060fc52dfdcdea412aa1a06bcda0bd/irqbalance.1#L62
(In reply to Sam James from comment #1) > May need to pass them as extra args like > https://github.com/Irqbalance/irqbalance/blob/ > d08fb4d1b5060fc52dfdcdea412aa1a06bcda0bd/irqbalance.1#L62 Yes, of course. But that is not the point; the point is that the current /etc/conf.d/irqbalance file is not working, and gives incorrect information.
The environment variable was dropped from upstream and should be removed from the supplied config example/blueprint as well. See also https://www.suse.com/support/kb/doc/?id=000018665
(In reply to Michelangelo Scopelliti from comment #2) > (In reply to Sam James from comment #1) > > May need to pass them as extra args like > > https://github.com/Irqbalance/irqbalance/blob/ > > d08fb4d1b5060fc52dfdcdea412aa1a06bcda0bd/irqbalance.1#L62 > > Yes, of course. But that is not the point; the point is that the current > /etc/conf.d/irqbalance file is not working, and gives incorrect information. (It was more of a comment for what we need to do.)
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=3e1b0adc1eb3618207a8315e90fb53b17d489994 commit 3e1b0adc1eb3618207a8315e90fb53b17d489994 Author: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2024-03-28 04:46:32 +0000 Commit: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2024-03-28 04:46:32 +0000 sys-apps/irqbalance: drop obsolete option from OpenRC conf.d IRQBALANCE_BANNED_INTERRUPTS was removed upstream. We could implement it as a shim for upstream's --banirq option but I don't see the point, people can pass that via the other variable anyway. Bug: https://github.com/Irqbalance/irqbalance/issues/271 Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/917338 Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> sys-apps/irqbalance/files/irqbalance.confd-2 | 16 ++++++++++++++++ sys-apps/irqbalance/irqbalance-1.9.4.ebuild | 2 +- 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
