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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: kevdig@hypersurf.com
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] genirq: Set initial default irq affinity to just CPU0
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 21:05:13 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081025.210513.80339263.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4903A37A.50607@hypersurf.com>

From: Kevin Diggs <kevdig@hypersurf.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 15:53:46 -0700

> What does this all mean to my GigE (dual 1.1 GHz 7455s)? Is this
> thing supposed to be able to spread irq between its cpus?

Networking interrupts should lock onto a single CPU, unconditionally.
That's the optimal way to handle networking interrupts, especially
with multiqueue chips.

This is what the userland IRQ balance daemon does.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-26  4:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-24 15:57 [PATCH] genirq: Set initial default irq affinity to just CPU0 Kumar Gala
2008-10-24 23:18 ` David Miller
2008-10-25 21:33   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-10-25 22:53     ` Kevin Diggs
2008-10-26  4:05       ` David Miller [this message]
2008-10-27 17:36         ` Chris Friesen
2008-10-27 18:28           ` David Miller
2008-10-27 19:10             ` Chris Friesen
2008-10-27 19:25               ` David Miller
2008-10-28  3:46                 ` Chris Friesen
2008-10-27 19:43             ` Kumar Gala
2008-10-27 19:49               ` David Miller
2008-10-27 20:46                 ` Kumar Gala
2008-10-26  6:48       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-10-26  7:16         ` David Miller
2008-10-26  8:29           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-10-27  2:30         ` Kevin Diggs
2008-10-27  2:49           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-10-26  4:04     ` David Miller
2008-10-26  6:33       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-10-27 13:43         ` Kumar Gala
2008-10-27 20:27           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-10-27 20:45             ` Kumar Gala

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