Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 12 Oct 2000 16:46:42 -0700 (PDT) | From | James Simmons <> | Subject | Re: IRQ affinity vs. MTRRs, was Re: 36 bit MTRRs, Re: test10-pre1 problems on 4-way SuperServer8050 |
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> > every CPU to avoid slowdowns. So that if you set that eth0's > > IRQ will be handled by CPU1, the MTRRs of CPU1 will be set > > accordingly, and the other CPUs will not care about eth0, > > so they do not need eth0's MTRR settings. > > A little question. Why do we want to bind irq of eth0 to a single CPU ? > imho it will casue slowdown of some situation. Why don't we leave scheduler > to select CPU for processing IRQ ?
This would be really horrible for video cards. X would come to a crawl :-(
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