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From: Sean Neakums <sneakums@zork.net>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: irq balancing; kernel vs. userspace
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2003 19:55:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6ur87xkni0.fsf@zork.zork.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1050863476.1412.11.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> (Arjan van de Ven's message of "20 Apr 2003 20:31:16 +0200")

Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com> writes:

> On Sun, 2003-04-20 at 15:23, Sean Neakums wrote:
>> I thought I'd play with the userspace IRQ-balancer, but booting with
>> noirqbalance seems not to not balance.  Possibly I misunderstand how
>> this all fits together.
>
> this looks like you haven't started the userspace daemon (yet)

I just cranked it up, and now I see:

$ cat /proc/interrupts 
           CPU0       CPU1       
  0:    9627420   12189635    IO-APIC-edge  timer
  1:       4165       4347    IO-APIC-edge  i8042
  2:          0          0          XT-PIC  cascade
  4:     282749     315988    IO-APIC-edge  serial
  8:          2          1    IO-APIC-edge  rtc
  9:          3          2   IO-APIC-level  eth1
 10:      19270      20109   IO-APIC-level  via82cxxx, eth0
 11:      34913      19457   IO-APIC-level  aic7xxx
 12:       8777       8835    IO-APIC-edge  i8042
NMI:          0          0 
LOC:   21817495   21817494 
ERR:          0
MIS:          0


I was confused at first because I was thinking of IRQ balancing as
balancing IRQs *across* CPUs.  This kind of balancing seems to be
about spreading IRQ *sources* across CPUs.  I guess it's good for
caches and whatnot for IRQs to be consistently serviced by the same
CPU.

Anyway, it seems to be working.  Thanks!

-- 
Sean Neakums - <sneakums@zork.net>

  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-04-20 18:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-04-20  3:11 Linux 2.5.68 Linus Torvalds
2003-04-20  4:57 ` Ben Collins
2003-04-20 13:23 ` irq balancing; kernel vs. userspace Sean Neakums
2003-04-20 18:31   ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-04-20 18:37     ` Kevin P. Fleming
2003-04-20 19:10       ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-04-20 18:55     ` Sean Neakums [this message]
2003-04-20 20:11   ` Zwane Mwaikambo
     [not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.50.0304201605360.17265-100000@montezuma.mastece nde.com>
2003-04-20 20:43   ` (OT) md5sum proving to be an EXCELLENT memory test Stephen Satchell
2003-04-20 21:58     ` Leonard Milcin, Jr
2003-04-20 23:45       ` Stephen Satchell
     [not found]         ` <3EA3EC75.35988618@gmx.de>
2003-04-21 13:46           ` Stephen Satchell
2003-04-23 19:33 ` 2.5.68: net/decnet/dn_route.c doesn't compile Adrian Bunk
2003-04-23 19:46   ` Steven Whitehouse
2003-04-22 21:54 irq balancing; kernel vs. userspace Bill Davidsen

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