From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 12 Oct 2001 05:28:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 12 Oct 2001 05:28:00 -0400 Received: from destructo.gearboxsoftware.com ([12.37.36.2]:38150 "HELO gearboxsoftware.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Fri, 12 Oct 2001 05:27:47 -0400 From: "Sean Cavanaugh" To: Subject: P4 SMP load balancing Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 04:28:19 -0500 Message-ID: <002601c15300$3a9f0510$150a10ac@gearboxsoftware.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2616 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Importance: Normal Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I posted this a while back in linux-smp (which seems like a dead list?) I have several P4 Xeon SMP systems (Supermicro P4DCE, Intel i860 chipset) ovendev:~# cat /proc/interrupts CPU0 CPU1 0: 6348212 0 IO-APIC-edge timer 1: 2 0 IO-APIC-edge keyboard 2: 0 0 XT-PIC cascade 8: 1 0 IO-APIC-edge rtc 9: 0 0 IO-APIC-edge acpi 16: 92620 0 IO-APIC-level eth0 18: 5085 0 IO-APIC-level aic7xxx, aic7xxx NMI: 0 0 LOC: 6348388 6348427 ERR: 0 MIS: 0 How much of a problem is this really? The program's I am running on these systems (I have 9 of them) seem do ok right now. Currently the jobs running on them are heavily CPU bound and don't do any I/O, but this is going to change when I link them up over a private network so they can work together on some distributable jobs). I am running 2.4.10 on most of them, and 2.4.10-ac10 on my developer system in the farm. The only difference this newer kernel seems to have made from older ones is that there is only one 'warning unexpected IO-APIC' message in my startup instead of two. Snippet from dmesg: CPU1: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 1700MHz stepping 0a Total of 2 processors activated (6723.99 BogoMIPS). ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs ...changing IO-APIC physical APIC ID to 2 ... ok. init IO_APIC IRQs IO-APIC (apicid-pin) 2-0, 2-5, 2-10, 2-11, 2-12, 2-17, 2-20, 2-21, 2-22 not connected. ..TIMER: vector=0x31 pin1=2 pin2=0 number of MP IRQ sources: 18. number of IO-APIC #2 registers: 24. testing the IO APIC....................... IO APIC #2...... .... register #00: 02000000 ....... : physical APIC id: 02 .... register #01: 00178020 ....... : max redirection entries: 0017 ....... : PRQ implemented: 1 ....... : IO APIC version: 0020 WARNING: unexpected IO-APIC, please mail to linux-smp@vger.kernel.org .... register #02: 00000000 ....... : arbitration: 00 .... IRQ redirection table: - Sean