Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 24 Feb 2003 21:59:09 -0800 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: Scheduling with HyperThreading |
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On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, Mike Sullivan wrote: >> What kernel versions will attempt to distribute jobs across physical CPUs on >> Xeon SMP configurations.
On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 10:45:18PM -0700, James Bourne wrote: > From what I've heard, Arjans' user space daemon might be the way > things are going, it's at http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/irqbalance/ . > The other way that you might try is the irq load balance patch that Ingo > produced. There is a patch that is from 2.4.20 at > http://www.hardrock.org/kernel/2.4.20/ and it is what I'm using at work on > our current Xeon systems (until I have the chance to test the user space > daemon at least).
I think he's referring to the cpu scheduler, not interrupt load balancing. mingo might have some insight into current patches for this and current results thereof. I don't really participate in the scheduler aside from very occasional bugfixing.
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