Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 20 Nov 2007 13:58:39 -0800 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | Re: CONFIG_IRQBALANCE for 64-bit x86 ? |
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On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 15:02:43 -0500 Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca> wrote: > .. > > Well, for my dualCore notebook, dualCore MythTV box, and QuadCore > desktop, the behaviour of the existing, working, 32-bit kernel > IRQBALANCE code outperforms the userspace utility. > > Mostly, I suspect, due to it's much faster response to changing > conditions. That's something the external one could try to match, but > at present it seems tuned specifically for high-traffic network > servers, not for the average notebook or desktop.
I'd really like to see what it's doing before commenting on this; at minimum can you give me the /proc/interrupts of the system? It might a simple bug or simple missing item, not a total "scratch the full system".
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