> Although still insufficient in certain cases. All flows are not equal; as an > example, an IPSEC flow with 1000 packets bound to one CPU will likely > utilize more cycles than 5000 packets that are being plain forwarded on > another CPU.
sure; however the kernel doesn't provide more accurate information currently (and I doubt it could even, it's not so easy to figure out which interface triggered the softirq if 2 interfaces share the cpu, and then, how much work came from which etc). also the "amount of work" estimate doesn't need to be accurate to 5 digits to be honest... just number of packets seems to be a quite reasonable approximation already. (if the kernel starts exporting more accurate data, irqbalance can easily use it of course) -- if you want to mail me at work (you don't), use arjan (at) linux.intel.com Test the interaction between Linux and your BIOS via http://www.linuxfirmwarekit.org - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
