From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: CONFIG_IRQBALANCE for 64-bit x86 ?
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 13:58:39 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071120135839.08837372@laptopd505.fenrus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47433D63.5080806@rtr.ca>
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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-20 22:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-20 4:12 Mark Lord
2007-11-20 4:15 ` Ismail Dönmez
2007-11-20 4:17 ` Nick Piggin
2007-11-20 4:29 ` Willy Tarreau
2007-11-20 4:37 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-11-20 5:24 ` Nick Piggin
2007-11-20 5:28 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-11-20 5:37 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-11-20 7:37 ` Nick Piggin
2007-11-20 14:47 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-11-20 15:43 ` Nick Piggin
2007-11-20 19:07 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-11-20 20:02 ` Mark Lord
2007-11-20 21:58 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2007-11-20 23:17 ` Mark Lord
2007-11-22 7:54 ` Nick Piggin
2007-11-23 13:09 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-11-25 10:03 ` Nick Piggin
2007-11-20 15:47 ` Mark Lord
2007-11-20 15:52 ` Mark Lord
2007-11-20 16:02 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-11-20 16:10 ` Mark Lord
2007-11-20 18:42 ` Mark Lord
2007-11-20 22:01 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-11-20 23:22 ` Mark Lord
2007-11-20 23:27 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-11-20 23:33 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-11-20 23:47 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-11-20 23:50 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-11-21 0:07 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-11-21 0:20 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-11-21 0:36 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-11-21 0:47 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-11-21 2:48 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-11-21 2:59 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-11-20 23:28 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-11-20 19:17 ` Andi Kleen
2007-11-21 2:22 Walt H
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