From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264917AbTLFE3O (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Dec 2003 23:29:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264918AbTLFE3O (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Dec 2003 23:29:14 -0500 Received: from dodge.jordet.nu ([217.13.8.142]:17629 "EHLO dodge.jordet.nu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264917AbTLFE3M (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Dec 2003 23:29:12 -0500 Subject: Re: SMP broken on Dell PowerEdge 4100/200 under 2.6.0-testxx? From: Stian Jordet To: William Lee Irwin III Cc: Nick Piggin , Colin Coe , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20031206030755.GI8039@holomorphy.com> References: <3350.192.168.1.3.1070677965.squirrel@www.coesta.com> <20031206024251.GG8039@holomorphy.com> <3FD14396.5070205@cyberone.com.au> <20031206030755.GI8039@holomorphy.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Message-Id: <1070684918.7934.2.camel@chevrolet.hybel> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2003 05:28:38 +0100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org lør, 06.12.2003 kl. 04.07 skrev William Lee Irwin III: > On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 01:48:54PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote: > > Although in this case Colin has 2 PPro 200s. > > Colin - process load should be evenly distributed between CPUs, and this > > is generally the most important thing. Big networking loads (most commonly) > > can put a lot of time into processing interrupts though. > > That is rather busted, then. Uhm.. I was under the impression that this was expected behaviour? If not, I guess I'm having problems too? CPU0 CPU1 0: 91068534 45 IO-APIC-edge timer 1: 65293 1 IO-APIC-edge i8042 2: 0 0 XT-PIC cascade 3: 71 1 IO-APIC-edge serial 8: 325118 1 IO-APIC-edge rtc 9: 0 0 IO-APIC-level acpi 14: 245619 1 IO-APIC-edge ide0 15: 21 2 IO-APIC-edge ide1 17: 444526 0 IO-APIC-level aic7xxx, EMU10K1 18: 1112 0 IO-APIC-level aic7xxx, yenta 19: 6427306 1 IO-APIC-level saa7134[0], yenta, eth0, ide2 21: 34725 9049384 IO-APIC-level uhci_hcd, uhci_hcd, uhci_hcd NMI: 0 0 LOC: 91065099 91064973 ERR: 0 MIS: 2 This is with an uptime of almost 26 hours. Dual P3. USB uses lots of interrupts from both cpu's, but I'm running both the aic7xxx and eth0 quite hard at times... Best regards, Stian