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DateSat, 19 Apr 2008 12:23:54 -0700
FromStephen Hemminger <>
SubjectRe: [PATCH] Re: Bad network performance over 2Gbps
Bodo Eggert wrote:
> Kok, Auke <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com> wrote:
>
>
>> [X86] IRQBALANCE: Mark as BROKEN and disable by default
>>
>> The IRQBALANCE option causes interrupts to bounce all around on SMP systems
>> quickly burying the CPU in migration cost and cache misses. Mainly affected
>> are network interrupts and this results in one CPU pegged in softirqd
>> completely.
>>
>
> If this is the problem, maybe it would help to only balance the IRQs each
> e.g. ten seconds? Unfortunately I have no SMP system to try it out.
>
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The kernel level IRQBALANCE is useless. The userlevel irqbalance does
the right thing,
it handles multi-core, and network devices, and all the other special cases.
*Don't use kernel level irqbalance*


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