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Subject: irq balancing; kernel vs. userspace
From: Sean Neakums <sneakums@zork.net>
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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.

$ uname -a
Linux peng-33 2.5.68 #1 SMP Sun Apr 20 13:06:57 IST 2003 i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux
$ cat /proc/cmdline
auto BOOT_IMAGE=default ro root=801 noirqbalance
$ cat /proc/interrupts 
           CPU0       CPU1       
  0:     853487     854900    IO-APIC-edge  timer
  1:          9          4    IO-APIC-edge  i8042
  2:          0          0          XT-PIC  cascade
  4:      15548      15161    IO-APIC-edge  serial
  8:          2          1    IO-APIC-edge  rtc
  9:          3          2   IO-APIC-level  eth1
 10:       1784       1805   IO-APIC-level  via82cxxx, eth0
 11:      10939      10860   IO-APIC-level  aic7xxx
 12:         39         21    IO-APIC-edge  i8042
NMI:          0          0 
LOC:    1708150    1708149 
ERR:          0
MIS:          0

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Sean Neakums - <sneakums@zork.net>