linux-kernel - [PATCH] Documentation: Correct result of echnoing 5 to smp

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Date:	Fri, 17 Jun 2016 15:05:15 +0200
From:	John Kacur <jkacur@...hat.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, John Kacur <jkacur@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH] Documentation: Correct result of echnoing 5 to smp_affinity

echo 5 > /proc/irq/10/smp_affinity

means only the first and third (not fourth) cpus can handle irqs
That is, cpu0 is the first cpu and cpu2 is the third cpu

Signed-off-by: John Kacur <jkacur@...hat.com>
---
 Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
index e8d00759bfa5..5b61eeae3f6e 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
@@ -725,7 +725,7 @@ IRQ, you can set it by doing:
   > echo 1 > /proc/irq/10/smp_affinity
 
 This means that only the first CPU will handle the IRQ, but you can also echo
-5 which means that only the first and fourth CPU can handle the IRQ.
+5 which means that only the first and third CPU can handle the IRQ.
 
 The contents of each smp_affinity file is the same by default:
 
-- 
2.4.11