Re: CONFIG_IRQBALANCE for AMD64?

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Sat May 29 2004 - 06:20:46 EST


On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 08:10:39PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:
> Andi Kleen wrote:
> >>We're actually doing the converse of this in the sched-domain
> >>scheduler. Processes have a tendancy to follow the interrupts
> >>(ie. try to get onto the same CPU as them).
> >
> >
> >Hmm? I don't see any code in sched-domain that would care about
> >interrupts. What I'm missing?
> >
>
> Well no, what I should have said is wakeups. We do the same
> for all wakeups, so there is nothing interrupt specific you
> are right.

wakeups are too late e.g. for network processing.

-Andi
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