Remove old "focus disabled" chipset errata workaround The new systems already use focus disabled and the comment was completely outdated. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen --- arch/x86_64/kernel/apic.c | 28 ++-------------------------- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-) Index: linux/arch/x86_64/kernel/apic.c =================================================================== --- linux.orig/arch/x86_64/kernel/apic.c +++ linux/arch/x86_64/kernel/apic.c @@ -399,32 +399,8 @@ void __cpuinit setup_local_APIC (void) */ value |= APIC_SPIV_APIC_ENABLED; - /* - * Some unknown Intel IO/APIC (or APIC) errata are biting us with - * certain networking cards. If high frequency interrupts are - * happening on a particular IOAPIC pin, plus the IOAPIC routing - * entry is masked/unmasked at a high rate as well then sooner or - * later IOAPIC line gets 'stuck', no more interrupts are received - * from the device. If focus CPU is disabled then the hang goes - * away, oh well :-( - * - * [ This bug can be reproduced easily with a level-triggered - * PCI Ne2000 networking cards and PII/PIII processors, dual - * BX chipset. ] - */ - /* - * Actually disabling the focus CPU check just makes the hang less - * frequent as it makes the interrupt distributon model be more - * like LRU than MRU (the short-term load is more even across CPUs). - * See also the comment in end_level_ioapic_irq(). --macro - */ -#if 1 - /* Enable focus processor (bit==0) */ - value &= ~APIC_SPIV_FOCUS_DISABLED; -#else - /* Disable focus processor (bit==1) */ - value |= APIC_SPIV_FOCUS_DISABLED; -#endif + /* We always use processor focus */ + /* * Set spurious IRQ vector */