Re: 2.6.1 dual xeon

From: Robert Love
Date: Sat Jan 24 2004 - 20:44:39 EST


On Sat, 2004-01-24 at 20:36 -0500, Wakko Warner wrote:

> I recently aquired a dual xeon system. HT is enabled which shows up as 4
> cpus. I noticed that all interrupts are on CPU0. Can anyone tell me why
> this is?

The APIC needs to be programmed to deliver interrupts to certain
processors.

In 2.6, this is done in user-space via a program called irqbalance:

http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/irqbalance/

If you run Red Hat, it is in the "kernel-utils" package.

Robert Love


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