Re: SMP broken on Dell PowerEdge 4100/200 under 2.6.0-testxx?

[Matthew Kanar]

Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:
> Are you sure you're not running the userspace irq balancer (ps ax | grep
> irqbalance)?

<blush>

Well, userspace irqbalancer wasn't running, but it was started and then
stopped during the system startup.  My apologies.

A few changes in the rcX.d directories and a few reboots later, I have
found that this system exhibits similar behavior to that of others in
this thread.

/proc/interrupts without noirqbalance:
           CPU0       CPU1
  0:     331404         14    IO-APIC-edge  timer
  1:         10          1    IO-APIC-edge  i8042
  2:          0          0          XT-PIC  cascade
  8:          0          1    IO-APIC-edge  rtc
 12:         49          1    IO-APIC-edge  i8042
 14:       5503          0    IO-APIC-edge  ide0
 15:          1          0    IO-APIC-edge  ide1
 16:       1004          1   IO-APIC-level  eth0
NMI:          0          0
LOC:     331292     331291
ERR:          0
MIS:          0

/proc/interrupts with noirqbalance:

           CPU0       CPU1
  0:      70723     137438    IO-APIC-edge  timer
  1:          2          9    IO-APIC-edge  i8042
  2:          0          0          XT-PIC  cascade
  8:          1          0    IO-APIC-edge  rtc
 12:          2         48    IO-APIC-edge  i8042
 14:       3222       1850    IO-APIC-edge  ide0
 15:          1          0    IO-APIC-edge  ide1
 16:        471        459   IO-APIC-level  eth0
NMI:          0          0
LOC:     208023     208022
ERR:          0
MIS:          0

--Matt Kanar



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