Hello Robert, I did not assume a bug or similar. Just wanted to know about IRQ balancing. Your email does answer my question about IRQ balancing. Thank you!
Your hint about dmesg does however encourage me to post another mail, asking about my hardware. Roger. roberth schrieb: > ... > as you have noticed the Atom thingies are slow. > without any info nobody can tell you what changed in your hardware > setup, that could influence the load. (guess, diffrent nic) > Atom are dual core with hyperthreading, that does not help in any way > for routing because the network stack is all kernel work and the kernel > only uses 1 core. that's why you see all load on the first "cpu". > nothing to do about it, but using better hardware; other than some > serious codeing efforts. > if you are hitting a bug, nobody can tell without atleast dmesgs.

