Re: Should kirqd work on HT?

[Jeff Garzik]

Pallipadi, Venkatesh wrote:
> You are right. Kernel balancer doesn't move around the irqs, unless it
> has too many interrupts. The logic is moving around interrupts all the
> time will not be good on caches. So, there is a threshold above which
> the balancer start moving things around.
>
> You should see them moving around if you do 'ping -f' or a big 'dd' from
> the disk.

If kirqd is moving NIC interrupts, it's broken.

(and another reason why irqbalanced is preferable)

	Jeff



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