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From: Sander <sander@humilis.net>
To: Wakko Warner <wakko@animx.eu.org>
Cc: Robert Love <rml@ximian.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.1 dual xeon
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 08:38:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040127073801.GB9708@favonius> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040125083712.A9318@animx.eu.org>

Wakko Warner wrote (ao):
> > > I recently aquired a dual xeon system. HT is enabled which shows
> > > up as 4 cpus. I noticed that all interrupts are on CPU0. Can
> > > anyone tell me why this is?
> > 
> > The APIC needs to be programmed to deliver interrupts to certain
> > processors.
> > 
> > In 2.6, this is done in user-space via a program called irqbalance:
> 
> Thanks, working great. (Debian by the way)

Ehm, IIRC the "all interrupts are on CPU0" is how it is supposed to work
with a 2.6 kernel? The interrupts should spread if you have _a_lot_ of
them. This gives better performance than spreading the interrupts. Did I
read this on the list, or am I completely wrong here?

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  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-27  7:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-25  1:36 2.6.1 dual xeon Wakko Warner
2004-01-25  1:43 ` Robert Love
2004-01-25 13:37   ` Wakko Warner
2004-01-27  7:38     ` Sander [this message]
2004-01-27 17:13       ` Alexander Nyberg
2004-01-27 17:41         ` Justin Cormack
2004-01-28  9:32         ` Helge Hafting

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