From: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
To: michael@optusnet.com.au
Cc: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>,
"Nakajima, Jun" <jun.nakajima@intel.com>,
Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: CONFIG_IRQBALANCE for AMD64?
Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 10:45:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040529084526.GB29552@devserv.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1zn7r7hh1.fsf@mo.optusnet.com.au>
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On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 06:41:46PM +1000, michael@optusnet.com.au wrote:
> Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com> writes:
> > On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 11:33:32AM -0700, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> [...]
> > > Also, we may well have more than 1 CPU's worth of traffic to
> > > process in a large network server.
> >
> > One NIC? I've yet to see that ;)
>
> Oh, and another corner case.
>
> Say you have a cpu-bound process on an SMP box.
> Say you're also using a large chunk of a CPU processing
> interrupts from a single IRQ.
>
> What stops the cpu-bound process being scheduled onto
> the same CPU as the interrupt handlers?
>
> Now you've got one idle CPU, and one seriously overloaded
> CPU.
yes and the only real answer here is to make the scheduler move the process.
"balancing" the irq (say every other irq) will actually use BOTH cpus 100%
(yes balancing is that expensive due to cache misses :)
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Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-28 18:20 CONFIG_IRQBALANCE for AMD64? Nakajima, Jun
2004-05-28 18:33 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-05-28 18:44 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-05-28 18:57 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-05-28 19:01 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-05-29 8:38 ` michael
2004-05-29 8:41 ` michael
2004-05-29 8:45 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
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2004-05-28 23:37 Nakajima, Jun
2004-05-28 22:05 Nakajima, Jun
2004-05-28 22:54 ` Andi Kleen
2004-05-29 1:27 ` Nick Piggin
2004-05-29 10:06 ` Andi Kleen
2004-05-29 10:10 ` Nick Piggin
2004-05-29 11:18 ` Andi Kleen
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[not found] ` <20UqZ-7i7-5@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-05-28 21:45 ` Andi Kleen
2004-05-28 17:09 Nakajima, Jun
2004-05-28 17:40 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-05-28 17:45 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-05-28 17:46 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-05-28 17:57 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-05-28 19:51 ` Nivedita Singhvi
2004-05-28 19:58 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-05-28 20:14 ` Nivedita Singhvi
2004-05-28 21:45 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-05-28 20:03 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-05-27 3:48 Thomas Zehetbauer
2004-05-27 5:13 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-05-27 16:36 ` Thomas Zehetbauer
2004-05-27 16:50 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-05-27 21:37 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-05-27 17:03 ` Anton Blanchard
2004-05-27 22:36 ` Thomas Zehetbauer
2004-05-28 5:57 ` Arjan van de Ven
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