Binding interrupts to a CPU consists of two parts: setting up CPU affinity for the interrupt thread, and requesting that underlying hardware direct interrupts to the CPU. For software interrupt threads, implement a no-op interrupt event binder that returns success, so that the interrupt management code will just set the ithread's affinity and succeed. Index: kern/kern_intr.c =================================================================== --- kern/kern_intr.c (revision 192196) +++ kern/kern_intr.c (revision 192197) @@ -968,6 +968,18 @@ #endif /* + * Allow interrupt event binding for software interrupt handlers -- a no-op, + * since interrupts are generated in software rather than being directed by + * a PIC. + */ +static int +swi_assign_cpu(void *arg, u_char cpu) +{ + + return (0); +} + +/* * Add a software interrupt handler to a specified event. If a given event * is not specified, then a new event is created. */ @@ -988,7 +1000,7 @@ return (EINVAL); } else { error = intr_event_create(&ie, NULL, IE_SOFT, 0, - NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, "swi%d:", pri); + NULL, NULL, NULL, swi_assign_cpu, "swi%d:", pri); if (error) return (error); if (eventp != NULL)