irq balancing; kernel vs. userspace

Sean Neakums
2003-04-20T13:11:46Z

I thought I'd play with the userspace IRQ-balancer, but booting with
noirqbalance seems not to not balance. Possibly I misunderstand how
this all fits together.

$ uname -a
Linux peng-33 2.5.68 #1 SMP Sun Apr 20 13:06:57 IST 2003 i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux
$ cat /proc/cmdline
auto BOOT_IMAGE=default ro root=801 noirqbalance
$ cat /proc/interrupts
CPU0 CPU1
0: 853487 854900 IO-APIC-edge timer
1: 9 4 IO-APIC-edge i8042
2: 0 0 XT-PIC cascade
4: 15548 15161 IO-APIC-edge serial
8: 2 1 IO-APIC-edge rtc
9: 3 2 IO-APIC-level eth1
10: 1784 1805 IO-APIC-level via82cxxx, eth0
11: 10939 10860 IO-APIC-level aic7xxx
12: 39 21 IO-APIC-edge i8042
NMI: 0 0
LOC: 1708150 1708149
ERR: 0
MIS: 0

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