Re: SMP broken on Dell PowerEdge 4100/200 under 2.6.0-testxx?

["Colin Coe" <colin@coesta.com>]

Sorry about the delay.

Booted with noirqbalance.

[root@host root]# cat /proc/interrupts
           CPU0       CPU1
  0:    7411777    5971987    IO-APIC-edge  timer
  1:          7          4    IO-APIC-edge  i8042
  2:          0          0          XT-PIC  cascade
  4:         16         42    IO-APIC-edge  serial
  5:       4915       4820   IO-APIC-level  eth1
 10:         67         69   IO-APIC-level  aic7xxx
 11:        325        266   IO-APIC-level  eth0
 12:         47        109    IO-APIC-edge  i8042
 14:          0          0   IO-APIC-level  CS46XX
 15:       6398       6401   IO-APIC-level  megaraid
NMI:          0          0
LOC:   13383659   13383658
ERR:          0
MIS:          0

That looks a lot better...

Thanks!

--
"Obnoxious frog..." Spike, 2071AD

William Lee Irwin III said:
> On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 01:48:54PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
>> Although in this case Colin has 2 PPro 200s.
>> Colin - process load should be evenly distributed between CPUs, and this
>> is generally the most important thing. Big networking loads (most
>> commonly)
>> can put a lot of time into processing interrupts though.
>
> That is rather busted, then.
>
> Colin, could you try booting with noirqbalance on the kernel command
> line?
>
>
> -- wli
>