Re: [SMP BUG] [clockevents: i386 drivers patch] introduces irqbalance-does-not-work-properly problem

From: Komuro
Date: Sun May 20 2007 - 06:43:04 EST


On Sat, 19 May 2007 23:03:56 -0400
Jeff Garzik <jeff@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


> Do you mean userspace irqbalance daemon?

Yes. I mean userspace irqbalance daemon.


Best Regards
Komuro

> Komuro wrote:
> > [clockevents: i386 drivers patch] introduces
> > irqbalance-does-not-work-properly problem.
> >
> >
> > (The irq is not distributed to two Core
> > ,most of the irq is distributed to CPU1)
> >
> >
> > Mr. Thomas Gleixner,
> > any idea to fix this problem?
>
> Do you mean userspace irqbalance daemon?
>
> It might need to be modified to work properly with a new and unusual
> event source.
>
> Also, for some irq events, it may be good to send most interrupts to one
> core/CPU. That enhances caching effects, among other benefits. Again,
> this is highly dependent on the event source, I'm not saying that is the
> case here.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jeff
>
>
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