Andrew Morton wrote:
On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 10:35:26 -0700
Auke Kok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
We've recently seen a number of user bug reports against e1000 that the
in-kernel irqbalance code is detrimental to network latency. The algorithm
keeps swapping irq's for NICs from cpu to cpu causing extremely high network
latency (>1000ms).
What kernel versions? Some IRQ balancer fixes went in shortly after 2.6.17.
It would be better if poss to fix the balancer rather than deprecating it.
to some degree the in kernel balancer cannot really make the level of decisions
that a
userspace balancer can make, at least not without making all kernel developers
vomit ;)
(for example the userspace balancer looks in /proc/interrupts and parses that
to see
which interrupts are used by networking versus which by storage etc, and has
different
balancing policies for those and other classes; the networking policy basically
comes down to
"pin the interrupt unless some higher networking interrupt really gets in the
way")
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