From: ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Eric W. Biederman) Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:22:36 -0700 > irqbalance is actually more likely to move irqs than the hardware. > I have heard promises it won't move network irqs but I have seen > the opposite behavior. It knows what network devices are named, and looks for those keys in /proc/interrupts. Anything names 'ethN' will not be moved and if you name them on a per-queue basis properly (ie. 'ethN-RX1' etc.) it will flat distribute those interrupts amongst the cpus in the machine. So if you're doing "silly stuff" and naming your devices by some other convention, you would end up defeating the detations built into irqbalanced. Actually, let's not even guess, go check out the sources of the irqbalanced running on your system and make sure it has the network device logic in it. :-)
