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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
To: Jos Hulzink <josh@stack.nl>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: irq balancing: performance disaster
Date: 11 May 2003 11:07:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1052644067.1371.1.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200305110118.10136.josh@stack.nl>

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On Sun, 2003-05-11 at 01:18, Jos Hulzink wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 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. 
> 
> For those interested in the issue, please look at bug 699.

please try the following app instead:

http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/irqbalance/

the in kernel irqbalancer in 2.4 kernels has some worst case behaviors
at least, and the userspace implementation avoids those.

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2003-05-11  8:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-10 23:18 irq balancing: performance disaster Jos Hulzink
2003-05-10 21:42 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-05-11  2:14 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-05-11  4:46   ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-05-11  2:59     ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-05-11 10:00   ` Jos Hulzink
2003-05-11 12:17     ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-05-11 12:54       ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-05-11 12:58         ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-05-11 13:15           ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-05-11 13:17             ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-05-11  9:07 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]

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