Dear all,<br><br>I have an issue with an interrupt storm generated by 82945G graphics controller.<br><br>I will try to give you as much as detail as I can.<br><br>System detail:<br>-Debian lenny<br>-Xorg version 1.7.7<br>-Intel driver 2.12.0<br>
-Kernel 2.6.35.4<br><br>My application display video from 16 cameras. Each one in a Xv Port. The video is gotten from saa7134 devices.<br><br>Due to my setup, i915 is sharing irq with several devices:<br><br>$ cat /proc/interrupts<br>
<br># cat /proc/interrupts <br> CPU0 CPU1 <br> 0: 43 0 IO-APIC-edge timer<br> 1: 8 0 IO-APIC-edge i8042<br> 4: 1 0 IO-APIC-edge serial<br>
6: 2 0 IO-APIC-edge floppy<br> 9: 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi acpi<br> 12: 105 0 IO-APIC-edge i8042<br> 14: 0 0 IO-APIC-edge ide0<br>
16: 23084793 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi uhci_hcd:usb5, saa7130[0], saa7130[2], saa7130[4], saa7130[6], saa7130[12], saa7130[13], saa7130[14], saa7130[15], i915<br> 17: 34188 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi Intel ICH7, saa7130[8], saa7130[10]<br>
18: 144924 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi uhci_hcd:usb4, eth0, saa7130[1], saa7130[3], saa7130[5], saa7130[7]<br> 19: 208002 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi ata_piix, uhci_hcd:usb3, saa7130[9], saa7130[11]<br> 23: 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi ehci_hcd:usb1, uhci_hcd:usb2<br>
NMI: 0 0 Non-maskable interrupts<br>LOC: 390238 390215 Local timer interrupts<br>SPU: 0 0 Spurious interrupts<br>PMI: 0 0 Performance monitoring interrupts<br>
PND: 0 0 Performance pending work<br>RES: 122117 183756 Rescheduling interrupts<br>CAL: 165 123 Function call interrupts<br>TLB: 52101 63521 TLB shootdowns<br>TRM: 0 0 Thermal event interrupts<br>
THR: 0 0 Threshold APIC interrupts<br>MCE: 0 0 Machine check exceptions<br>MCP: 6 6 Machine check polls<br>ERR: 1<br>MIS: 0<br><br><br>I test IRQ rate checking /proc/interrupts every second and the rate for IRQ 16 is 175 irq/seconds. I have 8 video devices, each one generating 25 irq/sec (25 frames per second).<br>
This is what I expect. The problem appears after some minutes. IRQ rate rises to 30000 irq/seconds on IRQ16. It seems to be an interrupt storm.<br><br>I have tested with a newer Intel chipset which support MSI (Message-Signalled-Interrupts) and the problem disappear. The problem is that MSI support is buggy on 945G chipset.<br>
<br>I have tried with newer Xorg version (1.9.3), kernel (2.6.38.6, 2.6.35.14), intel driver (2.15.0) and the behaviour is always the same. <br><br>I have googled a lot and I feel that my problem is similar to the people claiming 'irq 16 nobody cared'. It happens to me also when I remove saa7134 driver. However I didn't find<br>
any solution for 'irq 16 nobody cared problem'... :(<br><br>Do you have any clue about this problem?<br><br>Thanks in advance,<br><br>Paco<br><br><br><br>