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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jesse.brandeburg@intel.com,
	john.ronciak@intel.com, auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, arjan@linux.intel.com
Subject: Re: [RFC] irqbalance: Mark in-kernel irqbalance as obsolete, set to N by default
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 19:45:50 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060803194550.9ff31bc1.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44CE3F5E.4010305@intel.com>

On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 10:35:26 -0700
Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com> wrote:

> We've recently seen a number of user bug reports against e1000 that the 
> in-kernel irqbalance code is detrimental to network latency. The algorithm 
> keeps swapping irq's for NICs from cpu to cpu causing extremely high network 
> latency (>1000ms).

What kernel versions?  Some IRQ balancer fixes went in shortly after 2.6.17.

It would be better if poss to fix the balancer rather than deprecating it.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-04  2:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-31 17:35 [RFC] irqbalance: Mark in-kernel irqbalance as obsolete, set to N by default Auke Kok
2006-08-04  2:45 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2006-08-04 14:25   ` Auke Kok
2006-08-04 14:36   ` Arjan van de Ven
     [not found] <6EJUl-4br-13@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <6FXVd-1Gl-11@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]   ` <6G9jL-1Yg-41@gated-at.bofh.it>
2006-08-04 21:48     ` Bodo Eggert

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