Re: [2.4][PATCH] Xeon HT - SMT+SMP interrupt balancing

From: Arjan van de Ven (arjanv_at_redhat.com)
Date: 12/11/03

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    To: Ken <ken@nova.org>
    Date:	Thu, 11 Dec 2003 17:59:44 +0100
    
    
    

    On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 17:44, Ken wrote:

    > I have attempted user space alternatives -- irq_balance-0.06 and
    > smp_affinity via sysctrl. The former seems to "blindly" affine an IRQ
    > to a single logical CPU, which in my case, puts the timer and eth3 on
    > CPU0 and it gets "overloaded" while the others are mostly idle.

    1) This got fixed in version 0.07
    2) You are talking a whopping 100 irq's per second, which is like about
    no interrupts... I doubt you can find a scenario where 100 irq's per
    second matter.... ;)

    
    

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