Re: irq balance problems?

From: Imre Gergely
Date: Tue Feb 21 2006 - 03:01:39 EST




Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>> and irqbalance is not running, why aren't the interrupts coming from eth0
>> balanced between the two processors? at least that's what i understood from the
>> examples in Documentation/IRQ-affinity.txt. are there any other settings/kernel
>> parameters/compile option one has to set?
>
> it'll depend on the chipset. Some round-robin, some don't.
> For performance it's better to not round-robin.

is there a way to see for sure? or this behaviour is proof enough that it
doesn't do round-robin?


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