If the interrupt destination mode of the APIC is physical then the effective affinity is restricted to a single CPU.
Mark the interrupt accordingly in the domain allocation code, so the core code can avoid pointless affinity setting attempts. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de> --- arch/x86/kernel/apic/vector.c | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) --- a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/vector.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/vector.c @@ -371,6 +371,13 @@ static int x86_vector_alloc_irqs(struct irq_data); if (err) goto error; + /* + * If the apic destination mode is physical, then the + * effective affinity is restricted to a single target + * CPU. Mark the interrupt accordingly. + */ + if (!apic->irq_dest_mode) + irqd_set_single_target(irq_data); } return 0;