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Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2007 09:57:56 -0800 From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@...com> To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org> Cc: hadi@...erus.ca, Robert Iakobashvili <coroberti@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: Network card IRQ balancing with Intel 5000 series chipsets >>With NAPI, if i have a few interupts it likely implies i have a huge >>network load (and therefore CPU use) and would be much more happier if >>you didnt start moving more interupt load to that already loaded CPU.... > > > current irqbalance accounts for napi by using the number of packets as > indicator for load, not the number of interrupts. (for network > interrupts obviously) And hopefully some knowledge of NUMA so it doesn't "balance" the interrupts of a NIC to some far-off (topology-wise) CPU... rick jones - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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