On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 10:32:45AM +0800, Colin Coe wrote:
This indicates to me that the processing load is being evenly distributed
accross the two processes. Under v2.6.0-testxx however, 'cat
/proc/interrupts' shows this:
[root@host root]# cat /proc/interrupts
CPU0 CPU1
0: 633122 30 IO-APIC-edge timer
1: 207 IO-APIC-edge i8042
2: XT-PIC cascade
4: 48 1 IO-APIC-edge serial
5: 449 1 IO-APIC-level eth1
10: 135 1 IO-APIC-level aic7xxx
11: 1447 1 IO-APIC-level eth0
12: 61 IO-APIC-edge i8042
14: IO-APIC-level CS46XX
15: 14982 1 IO-APIC-level megaraid
2.6 does balancing across packages, not logical cpus, so this will
happen and it will be largely harmless, except for what appears to
be some kind of bug where it's stealing the timer from logical cpu 1.