Re: SATA question

V Sat, 07 Apr 2007 14:02:21 -0400, John-Paul Stewart napsal(a):

Captain Dondo wrote:

Any other kernel option that might do the same thing? I've installed
irqbalance, and it seems to be balancing the IRQs. It will take me a bit
to figure out if it's really helping....

It's there in 2.6.20. If you do a 'make menuconfig' it's under
"Processor Type and Features", then select "Enable kernel IRQ balancing"
(about 2/3 of the way down the list). Of course, SMP support must be
included to even see this option.

Interesting. It isn't there in my 64 bit system. An IA32 only feature?

I've checked with AMD64, Core2, and generic X86-64 CPU types; none of
those made it magically appear....

--Yan
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