Sharing IRQs between RT devices is not problematic, but still comes with additional overhead compared to dedicated IRQ lines.

On x86, the following approaches exist to untangle devices IRQ-wise:

• If your hardware implements the Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI), enabling CONFIG_MSI in the kernel should fix the issue.

• If at least one of the devices is a PCI card, try flipping its position on the motherboard.

• PC104+ cards sometimes have jumpers (yeah, they still exist) to change the IRQ line. Otherwise, their ordering in the PC104 stack also influences the IRQ line

• Some (but not many) PC and notebook BIOSes allow to change the IRQ assignment.

• Disable the conflicting Linux device (e.g. in the BIOS) or simply don’t load its driver.

• Disable some other on-board device that is unneeded. Sometimes this helps to persuade the system to avoid shared IRQs.

• Enable CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC or CONFIG_X86_IO_APIC, it increases the number of IRQs and may help (though nobody ever reported success with this).

• Ask you board vendor about possibilities to untangle IRQ lines — or beat some engineer of your hardware design team if it is a homegrown problem.

• In case nothing works, and for a given configuration, you may modify the non real-time driver which shares an IRQ with a real-time driver as indicated in this post.