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docs: add IRQ documentation at the core-api book

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There are 4 IRQ documentation files under Documentation/*.txt.

Move them into a new directory (core-api/irq) and add a new
index file for it.

While here, use a title markup for the Debugging section of the
irq-domain.rst file.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/2da7485c3718e1442e6b4c2dd66857b776e8899b.1588345503.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-05-01 17:37:51 +02:00
committed by Jonathan Corbet
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@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ of queues to IRQs can be determined from /proc/interrupts. By default,
an IRQ may be handled on any CPU. Because a non-negligible part of packet
processing takes place in receive interrupt handling, it is advantageous
to spread receive interrupts between CPUs. To manually adjust the IRQ
affinity of each interrupt see Documentation/IRQ-affinity.txt. Some systems
affinity of each interrupt see Documentation/core-api/irq/irq-affinity.rst. Some systems
will be running irqbalance, a daemon that dynamically optimizes IRQ
assignments and as a result may override any manual settings.
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ can be configured for each receive queue using a sysfs file entry::
This file implements a bitmap of CPUs. RPS is disabled when it is zero
(the default), in which case packets are processed on the interrupting
CPU. Documentation/IRQ-affinity.txt explains how CPUs are assigned to
CPU. Documentation/core-api/irq/irq-affinity.rst explains how CPUs are assigned to
the bitmap.