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NAME [Toc] [Back]
intctl - manage the interrupt configuration of the system
SYNOPSIS [Toc] [Back]
/usr/contrib/bin/intctl [-h | -F | -p | -c cpu_id]
/usr/contrib/bin/intctl [-C class] [-H hw_path]
/usr/contrib/bin/intctl [-M -H hw_path -I intr_id -c cpu_id]
/usr/contrib/bin/intctl [-r file | -s file]
DESCRIPTION [Toc] [Back]
A processor receives an interrupt when either the processor's
interrupt pin is asserted (for line based interrupts) or if a
processor detects an interrupt message bus transaction on the system
bus (for transaction based interrupts).
Interrupts from the interface cards can be line or transaction based.
Interrupts are routed to different processors during boot time.
The intctl command is a tool that allows a performance expert to
display and modify these interrupt assignments. The tool only
supports migration of external device interrupts. The performance
analyst can also save and restore the interrupt configuration. If
interrupt migration process completes successfully, a message is
logged to the console and/or to the /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log file.
intctl resides in /usr/contrib/bin, and the command can be executed
only by the super user. The intctl command is not a general system
administration command. It should be used only by performance tuning
experts with a high level of system knowledge. The performance
specialist can use the intctl command to view the interrupt
configuration of the system and modify the interrupt assignments of
the CPUs to re-distribute the system load across the CPUs.
intctl is synchronized with other High Availability (HA) events
happening simultaneously on the system. An HA event can be a PCI OLA/R
or Processor allocation/de-allocation. If any of these events are
happening when intctl is trying to display interrupt information or is
trying to migrate an interrupt to a CPU, intctl will exit with the
error message, "Another HA event is in progress, try again!" and the
user should retry the command.
Interrupt migration is not enabled on workstations. Also non-MP safe
drivers do not support interrupt migration. The tool will display an
error message if the user tries to move the interrupts of a non-MP
safe driver to a different CPU.
On a system with virtual partitions (vPars), intctl will only display
CPUs in the current partition. A CPU belonging to a partition can be
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either a bound or a floater CPU. A bound CPU is bound to the partition
and the interrupt state of these CPUs can be either ENABLED, DISABLED
or RESERVED for interrupts. Floater CPUs are not bound to the
partition and the state of these CPUs is DISABLED; interrupts cannot
be assigned to these CPUs. A bound CPU in DISABLED state can be
ENABLED for interrupts through the PSETS interface. To get more
information about the state of a floater CPU belonging to other
partitions, the performance expert can use the vPars vparstatus
command.
Options [Toc] [Back]
By default, the command displays interrupt information about all the
interface cards on the system.
intctl recognizes the following options:
-c cpu_id By itself (without any other options), display
interrupt information about the specified CPU.
When used with the -M option, -c cpu_id specifies the
CPU ID of the CPU to which the interrupt is to be
moved.
-C class Display interrupt information about all the interface
cards belonging to the specified class.
Can be used with the -H hw_path option to display
interrupt information about the interface card under
the hw_path that belongs to the specified class.
-F Produce a compact listing of fields separated by
colons.
-h Display the usage of the command.
-H hw_path Display interrupt information about all interface cards
connected at the specified hardware path. For hardware
paths / and 0, intctl prints the interrupt information
about all the interface cards on the system.
When used with the -C class option, -H displays
information about all interface cards connected to the
path and which belong to the specified class.
When used with the -M option, -H hw_path specifies the
hardware path of the interrupt that needs to be moved
to a different CPU.
-I intr_id Used with -M option to specify the interrupt ID of the
interrupt to be moved.
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-M Migrate an interrupt to a specified CPU. This option
must be specified with the -H, -I, -c options.
The -M option should be specified first in the command
line followed by the remaining options which can be
specified in any order.
-p Display interrupt information about all the CPUs on the
system in a long format with spacing in between the
fields.
-r file Restore the system interrupt configuration from the
specified file, file. The interrupt configuration is
restored only if all the interface cards and CPUs
referenced in the saved configuration file are still
present on the system and the CPUs are in the same
state as in the saved configuration. If new cards and
new CPUs are added to the system, intctl will continue
to restore the interrupt configuration as long as the
old configuration has not changed. intctl will fail to
restore the interrupt configuration if the file
permission is not 0600.
In restoring the system configuration, the command will
assign interrupts from the interface cards to the CPUs
as specified in the file.
-s file Save the system interrupt configuration to the
specified file, file, with file permission 0600. If
the file exists, the content of the file will be
overwritten and the file permissions will be changed to
0600. The command will store the interrupt information
of all the CPUs on the system. This file can be used to
restore the interrupt configuration of the system later
using the -r option.
Interrupt Configuration Display [Toc] [Back]
The interrupt configuration can be displayed sorted by CPU ID (intctl
-p) or sorted by interface card hardware path (intctl -H hw_path).
By default, the command displays interrupt information about all the
interface cards on the system. Here is a sample interrupt
configuration display, and the fields are explained below.
hw path class drv card cpu cpu intr intr card
name cell ID cell type ID description
=======================================================================
0/0/0/0 lan btlan N/A 0 N/A L 5 HP PCI
10/100Base-TX Core
0/0/1/0 ext_bus c720 N/A 0 N/A L 0 SCSI C895 Fast
Wide LVD
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0/0/2/0 ext_bus c720 N/A 0 N/A L 1 SCSI C87x Ultra
Wide Single-Ended
0/0/2/1 ext_bus c720 N/A 0 N/A L 2 SCSI C87x Ultra
Wide Single-Ended
hw path A numerical string of hardware components separated by
slash (/), to represent a bus converter. The first
component in the hardware path is the cell (for a cell
based system) or the system bus adapter (for a non-cell
based system). The system bus adapter is followed by
the address of the local bus adapter and the interface
card. Subsequent numbers are separated by periods (.).
Each number represents the location of a hardware
component on the path of the device.
class The class of the interface card, e.g., lan, tty,
ext_bus.
drv name The driver associated with the card.
card cell The cell number of the cell that the card is connected
to.
cpu ID An integer value representing the identity of the CPU
that the card's interrupt is assigned to.
cpu cell The cell number of the cell that the CPU is connected
to.
intr type A character representing the interrupt type:
L line based interrupt
T transaction based interrupt
intr ID The identity of the interrupt to be moved.
card description A brief description of the interface card.
cpu_path The hardware path of the CPU.
cpu_state Integer value representing the state of the CPU:
ENABLED(0), DISABLED(1) or RESERVED(2). These states
are interrupt states and do not have any relationship
to the thread state.
ENABLED The CPU is capable of receiving external
interrupts from interface cards.
DISABLED The CPU cannot handle external interrupts
from interface cards.
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RESERVED The state is reserved to receive
interrupts from specific cards, e.g., for
RTE (Real Time Extensions) some processors
are reserved specifically to handle
interrupts from RTE cards.
Redirection [Toc] [Back]
The intctl command allows the performance specialist to modify the
interrupt assignment of an interface card. The user must specify the
hardware path of interface card, the interrupt ID that needs to be
moved, and the new CPU ID that the interrupt will be routed to.
When an interrupt is moved from one CPU to another, if the interrupt
shares a line with other interrupts, all the interrupts on that line
will be moved to the specified CPU. The kernel will add a message to
the /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log file which will contain the hardware
path and interrupt IDs of the interrupts being moved and the CPU ID of
the CPU to which these interrupts were moved.
When migrating an interrupt from one CPU to another, if the card that
the interrupt belongs to is in an erroneous or timed out state, the
interrupt will not be moved. If an interrupt shares a line with other
interrupts, and if any of the cards is in an erroneous state, then
none of the interrupts on the line will be moved to the specified CPU.
Saving & Restoring System Interrupt Configurations
The intctl command can save and restore the system interrupt
configuration in a user specified file. Before restoring the
configuration, the intctl command checks to see if the system setup
has changed by checking that all the interface cards and CPUs from the
saved configuration are still present in the system and that the CPUs
are in the same state as in the saved configuration. The command will
continue to restore the configuration if new cards or CPUs have been
added to the system since the interrupt configuration was saved.
RETURN VALUE [Toc] [Back]
Exit values are:
0 Successful completion.
>0 An error condition occurred.
EXAMPLES [Toc] [Back]
Display information about all interface cards which belong to the
class lan:
intctl -C lan
Display the interrupt information of the card with hardware path
0/4/0/0/5/0:
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intctl -H 0/4/0/0/5/0
Display interrupt information of all the interface cards under the
path, 0/4:
intctl -H 0/4
Display interrupt information of all interface cards under the
hardware path 0/4 and which belong to class lan:
intctl -C lan -H 0/4
Display interrupt information about the CPU with CPU ID 3:
intctl -c 3
Migrate the interrupt with ID 1, coming from the card whose hardware
path is 0/4/0/0/5/0 to CPU 3.
intctl -M -H 0/4/0/0/5/0 -I 1 -c 3
Store the system interrupt configuration to myconfig. If myconfig
already exists, its contents are overwritten.
intctl -s myconfig
Restore the system interrupt configuration from myconfig.
intctl -r myconfig
WARNINGS [Toc] [Back]
The intctl command can be executed only by the super user. The intctl
command should be used only by performance analysts for performance
tuning purposes. If care is not taken to redistribute the interrupts
properly, it could lead to a decrease in the overall system
performance by overloading some processors and by not optimally
utilizing the remaining processors.
SEE ALSO [Toc] [Back]
ioscan(1M).
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