Re: [PATCH] NUMA-Q disable irqbalance

James Cleverdon
2002-08-27T01:20:00Z

On Saturday 24 August 2002 05:19 am, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > Well, it makes performance _so_ much better on a P4 that it's not even
> > funny. It's basically a "P4 is unusable with SMP" without it.
>
> Out of interest, does anyone have an idea of what Windows does?
>
> Zwane

I'm not allowed to report second hand rumors from the folks who assisted with
the debug of the x440 HAL, so I won't mention that they may or may not be
using clustered logical interrupts and adjusting priority with the TPR.

I can admit that I have no clue how they assign IRQs to APIC clusters, whether
randomly or if they try some load balancing scheme.

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James Cleverdon
IBM xSeries Linux Solutions
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