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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@fenrus.demon.nl>
To: James Harper <james.harper@bigpond.com>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: SMP and CPU1 not showing interrupts in /proc/interrupts
Date: 23 Feb 2003 14:52:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1046008358.1964.0.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3E589799.3000105@bigpond.com>

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On Sun, 2003-02-23 at 10:42, James Harper wrote:
> somewhere between about 2.5.53 and 2.5.62 my /proc/interrupts has gone 
> from an approximately even distribution of interrupts between CPU0 and 
> CPU1 to grossly uneven:
> 
>            CPU0       CPU1       
>   0:   13223321    2233217    IO-APIC-edge  timer
>   1:      13442          0    IO-APIC-edge  i8042
>   2:          0          0          XT-PIC  cascade
>   3:     291874          0    IO-APIC-edge  serial
>   8:          3          0    IO-APIC-edge  rtc
>   9:          0          0    IO-APIC-edge  acpi
>  14:      18932          0    IO-APIC-edge  ide0
>  15:         14          0    IO-APIC-edge  ide1
>  16:     190607          1   IO-APIC-level  eth0, nvidia
>  17:       3214          0   IO-APIC-level  bttv0
>  18:      14249          1   IO-APIC-level  ide2
>  19:     121942          0   IO-APIC-level  uhci-hcd, wlan0
> NMI:          0          0
> LOC:   15458218   15458423
> ERR:          0
> MIS:          0
> 
> if i really hit the system hard then CPU1 will start accruing interrupts 
> but in a mostly idle state CPU1 just sits on its bum and lets CPU0 
> handle them all, with the exception of irq #0, for some reason.

could you try the irqbalanced daemon for interrupt balancing:

http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/irqbalance/irqbalance-0.05.tar.gz


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      parent reply	other threads:[~2003-02-23 14:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-02-23  9:42 SMP and CPU1 not showing interrupts in /proc/interrupts James Harper
2003-02-23 10:21 ` Andrew Morton
2003-02-23 10:52 ` dada1
2003-02-23 13:52 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]

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