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SubjectRe: SMP P4 APIC/interrupt balancing
On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, James Bourne wrote:

> After Ingo forwarded me his original patch (I found his patch via a web
> based medium, which had converted all of the left shifts to compares, and
> now I'm very glad it didn't boot...) and the system is booted and is
> balancing most of the interrupts at least. Here's the current output
> of /proc/interrupts

Is this positive or negative on performance? If you have a system
getting so many interrupts that one CPU can't handle them, obviously there
is a gain. However, by thrashing the cache of all CPUs instead of just one
you have some memory performance cost.

I first looked at this for a mainframe vendor who decided that putting
all the interrupts in one CPU was better. That was then, this is now, but
I am curious about metrics, like real and system time doing a kernel
compile, etc.

--
bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.

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