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From: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Subject: Re: Timeline of IPoIB performance
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 14:03:26 -0700
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    Michael> Disabling irq balancing sometimes helps me make the
    Michael> numbers more stable.

I don't think that's an issue.  I'm running on x86_64, which I don't
think has the kernel irq balancer, and I'm not running a userspace IRQ
balancer.  I can see all the mthca interrupts going to the CPU I set
through the smp_affinity file.

 - R.