Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:43:24 -0800 | | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] irq: Add node_affinity CPU masks for smarter irqbalance hints |
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Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 00:59 -0800, Peter P Waskiewicz Jr wrote: >>> This all sounds backwards.. we've got a perfectly functional interface >>> for affinity -- which people object to being used for some reason. So >>> you add another interface on top, and that is ok? >>> >> But it's not functional. If I set the affinity in smp_affinity, then >> irqbalance will override it 10 seconds later. > > And here I was thinking the kernel round-robins IRQ delivery on the mask > specified there.
the kernel does no such thing, nor has code to do so.
> Are you talking about some daft userspace thing that > writes into the irq smp_affinity to effect irq balancing?
thanks ;)
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