Re: [2.4][PATCH] Xeon HT - SMT+SMP interrupt balancing

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Thu Dec 11 2003 - 12:01:38 EST


On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 17:44, Ken wrote:

> I have attempted user space alternatives -- irq_balance-0.06 and
> smp_affinity via sysctrl. The former seems to "blindly" affine an IRQ
> to a single logical CPU, which in my case, puts the timer and eth3 on
> CPU0 and it gets "overloaded" while the others are mostly idle.

1) This got fixed in version 0.07
2) You are talking a whopping 100 irq's per second, which is like about
no interrupts... I doubt you can find a scenario where 100 irq's per
second matter.... ;)

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