Public bug reported: The irqbalance daemon classifies network interfaces with non-eth* names as class "other" instead of class "network". In particular, this affects any machine with biosdevname enabled (NICs named em* and p*p*).
I have verified this in Precise beta 2. I run "irqbalance --debug" and grep for the interrupt using "grep em1 /proc/interrupts". grep shows: 79: 2397 2660 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IR-PCI-MSI-edge em1-0 80: 180 181 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IR-PCI-MSI-edge em1-1 81: 250 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IR-PCI-MSI-edge em1-2 82: 249 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IR-PCI-MSI-edge em1-3 83: 182 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IR-PCI-MSI-edge em1-4 84: 449 1595 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IR-PCI-MSI-edge em1-5 85: 343 1319 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IR-PCI-MSI-edge em1-6 86: 26 14 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IR-PCI-MSI-edge em1-7 irqbalance --debug shows: Interrupt 84 (class other) has workload 2 Interrupt 80 (class other) has workload 1 Interrupt 86 (class other) has workload 0 Interrupt 85 (class other) has workload 0 Interrupt 83 (class other) has workload 0 Interrupt 82 (class other) has workload 0 Interrupt 81 (class other) has workload 0 Interrupt 79 (class other) has workload 0 The issue is resolved in the latest upstream of irqbalance using the following patch (commit from September 2011): http://code.google.com/p/irqbalance/source/detail?r=32a7757a031445a48be70e0e815e710b5c54c88e ** Affects: irqbalance (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: biosdevname -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/974450 Title: irqbalance classifies network interfaces with custom/renamed interfaces as class other To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/irqbalance/+bug/974450/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs