Hello,
On Sat, 19 Apr 2003 13:38:37 -0700
Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com> wrote:
| Philippe Gramoullé <philippe.gramoulle@mmania.com> wrote:
| >
| > [ SMP IRQ distribution ]
| >
| > Is this what you are looking for ? and are the values changes meaningful ?
|
| Looks good to me. But it didn't affect your machine at all, did it?
Well, no, i didn't really felt a clear change.
|
| This stuff only counts when the machine is doing a lot of work. The current
| IRQ balancer works well under high interrupt frequencies, but does quite the
| wrong thing if you're doing a lot of softirq work at low interrupt
| frequencies (gige routing with NAPI).
This box is used as a desktop box, so quite a lots of open applications, but no
real high load/IO except few kernel compiles and BK consistency checks.
Thanks,
Philippe
Booted with "noirqbalance" & started irqbalance:
$ cat /proc/interrupts
CPU0 CPU1
0: 73897 247288143 IO-APIC-edge timer
1: 38421 56 IO-APIC-edge i8042
2: 0 0 XT-PIC cascade
3: 177 0 IO-APIC-edge serial
8: 107607 0 IO-APIC-edge rtc
12: 3 0 IO-APIC-edge i8042, i8042, i8042, i8042
15: 32 118 IO-APIC-edge ide1
18: 12602 1159 IO-APIC-level EMU10K1
19: 454172 15987 IO-APIC-level uhci-hcd
20: 494005 0 IO-APIC-level eth0
22: 717483 38681 IO-APIC-level aic7xxx
23: 0 0 IO-APIC-level uhci-hcd
NMI: 0 0
LOC: 247366287 247364170
ERR: 0
MIS: 0
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