Re: irqbalance mandatory on SMP kernels?

[Theodore Ts'o]

On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 04:23:14PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> as long as the irqs are spread the apaches will (on average) follow your
> irq to the right cpu. Only if you put both irqs on the same cpu you have
> an issue

Maybe I'm being stupid but I don't see how the Apache's will follow
the IRQ's to the right CPU.  I agree this would be a good thing to do,
but how does the scheduler accomplish this?

						- Ted
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