From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263328AbTDSAkq (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Apr 2003 20:40:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263330AbTDSAkq (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Apr 2003 20:40:46 -0400 Received: from [12.47.58.203] ([12.47.58.203]:34456 "EHLO pao-ex01.pao.digeo.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263328AbTDSAkp convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Apr 2003 20:40:45 -0400 Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 17:51:16 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Philippe =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Gramoull=E9?= Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.5.67-mm4 & IRQ balancing Message-Id: <20030418175116.75c8aa7b.akpm@digeo.com> In-Reply-To: <20030419015836.6acbaeb6.philippe.gramoulle@mmania.com> References: <20030419015836.6acbaeb6.philippe.gramoulle@mmania.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.9 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i586-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-OriginalArrivalTime: 19 Apr 2003 00:52:36.0338 (UTC) FILETIME=[F81B3520:01C3060D] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Philippe Gramoullé wrote: > > > Hello, > > It may be not related to -mm4 only but as i hadn't checked before ( with 2.5.x kernels), > I just wonder about /proc/interrupts output: > > $ cat /proc/interrupts > CPU0 CPU1 > 0: 47851610 0 IO-APIC-edge timer > 1: 51789 0 IO-APIC-edge i8042 > 2: 0 0 XT-PIC cascade > 3: 171 0 IO-APIC-edge serial > 8: 772066 0 IO-APIC-edge rtc > 12: 3 0 IO-APIC-edge i8042, i8042, i8042, i8042 > 15: 58 1 IO-APIC-edge ide1 > 16: 47047 0 IO-APIC-level ohci1394 > 18: 391753 0 IO-APIC-level EMU10K1 > 19: 911863 0 IO-APIC-level uhci-hcd > 20: 261806 0 IO-APIC-level eth0 > 22: 273648 0 IO-APIC-level aic7xxx It is supposed to do that. You might as well beat the rush; boot with the `noirqbalance' option and run http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/irqbalance/. We want to pull the irq balancer out of the kernel altogether.