according to: http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/7/31/216 it is targetted to be phased out from kernel. So userspace's irqbalance daemon is preferred instead. read this comment: http://markmail.org/message/iqp4dyidosz53vmi and check this out: http://www.irqbalance.org/ On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 8:35 AM, Lal <learner.kernel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I see many irq balancing functions like balance_irq, > rotate_irqs_among_cpus, do_irq_balance defined in > arch/i386/kernel/io_apic.c (Linux 2.6.21). However mips architecture > does not have such functions. > > Is irq balancing not implemented for mips architecture ? > > Here is a typical snap shot of interrupts distributed to 14 CPUs on my system: > cpu interrupt > 0 10101 > 1 6890 > 2 992 > 3 521 > 4 424 > 5 482 > 6 520 > 7 426 > 8 467 > 9 532 > 10 446 > 11 462 > 12 232 > 13 648 > > > Any suggestion, how to do irq balancing? I tried smp_affinity, but it > does not work !! > > Thanks > -Lal > >From Documentation/networking/cxgb.txt it seemed to document some problem from irq balance in the kernel (irqbalance daemon is not recommended). -- Regards, Peter Teoh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
