On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 16:18:15 -0700 "Venkat Subbiah" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Most of the load in my system is triggered by a single ethernet IRQ. > Essentially the IRQ schedules a tasklet and most of the work is done > in the taskelet which is scheduled in the IRQ. From what I read looks > like the tasklet would be executed on the same CPU on which it was > scheduled. So this means even in an SMP system it will be one > processor which is overloaded. > > So will using the user space IRQ loadbalancer really help? What I am > doubtful about is that the user space load balance comes along and > changes the affinity once in a while. But really what I need is every > interrupt to go to a different CPU in a round robin fashion. if you round robin network interrupts your performance will be really really bad.... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/