linux-kernel - Re: >10% performance degradation since 2.6.18

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Date:	Fri, 3 Jul 2009 13:04:21 -0700
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Cc:	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>,
	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Styner, Douglas W" <douglas.w.styner@...el.com>,
	Chinang Ma <chinang.ma@...el.com>,
	"Prickett, Terry O" <terry.o.prickett@...el.com>,
	Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@...el.com>,
	Eric.Moore@....com, DL-MPTFusionLinux@....com
Subject: Re: >10% performance degradation since 2.6.18

On Fri, 3 Jul 2009 21:54:58 +0200
Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org> wrote:

> > That would seem to be a fruitful avenue of
> > investigation -- whether limiting the cards to a single RX/TX
> > interrupt would be advantageous, or whether spreading the eight
> > interrupts out over the CPUs would be advantageous.
> 
> The kernel should really do the per cpu binding of MSIs by default.

... so that you can't do power management on a per socket basis?
hardly a good idea.

just need to use a new enough irqbalance and it will spread out the
interrupts unless your load is low enough to go into low power mode.



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