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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: James Bourne <jbourne@mtroyal.ab.ca>
Cc: mingo@elte.hu, Mike Sullivan <mike.sullivan@alltec.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Scheduling with HyperThreading
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 21:59:09 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030225055909.GX10411@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.51.0302242240400.20688@skuld.mtroyal.ab.ca>

On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, Mike Sullivan wrote:
>> What kernel versions will attempt to distribute jobs across physical CPUs on
>> Xeon SMP configurations.

On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 10:45:18PM -0700, James Bourne wrote:
> From what I've heard, Arjans' user space daemon might be the way
> things are going, it's at http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/irqbalance/ .
> The other way that you might try is the irq load balance patch that Ingo
> produced.  There is a patch that is from 2.4.20 at
> http://www.hardrock.org/kernel/2.4.20/ and it is what I'm using at work on
> our current Xeon systems (until I have the chance to test the user space
> daemon at least).

I think he's referring to the cpu scheduler, not interrupt load
balancing. mingo might have some insight into current patches for
this and current results thereof. I don't really participate in
the scheduler aside from very occasional bugfixing.


-- wli

  reply	other threads:[~2003-02-25  5:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-02-25  1:04 Scheduling with HyperThreading Mike Sullivan
2003-02-25  5:45 ` James Bourne
2003-02-25  5:59   ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-02-25  7:43 Scheduling with Hyperthreading Mike Sullivan
     [not found] <Pine.LNX.4.44.0302250852190.26386-100000@coffee.psychology.mcmaster.ca>
2003-02-25 21:01 ` Mike Sullivan
2003-02-25 21:21 Pallipadi, Venkatesh
     [not found] <Pine.LNX.4.44.0302251616300.31810-100000@coffee.psychology.mcmaster.ca>
2003-02-25 21:23 ` Mike Sullivan

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