Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 10 May 2003 17:42:14 -0400 (EDT) | From | Zwane Mwaikambo <> | Subject | Re: irq balancing: performance disaster |
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On Sun, 11 May 2003, Jos Hulzink wrote:
> While tackling bug 699, it became clear to me that irq balancing is the cause > of the performance problems I, and all people using the SMP kernel Mandrake > 9.1 ships, are dealing with. I got the problems with 2.5.69 too. After > disabling irq balancing, the system is remarkably faster, and much more > responsive.
Alan fixed this in his tree a little while back, Mandrake didn't manage to squeeze that fix in. The 2.5 and 2.4 situation is different however, for 2.5 it's intentional, for 2.4 something broke.
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