linux-kernel - irqbalance beneficial these days?

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Date:	Tue, 10 Jul 2012 23:38:03 +0800
From:	Daniel J Blueman <daniel@...ra.org>
To:	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: irqbalance beneficial these days?

It seems like the environment for which irqbalance was originally
designed to optimise was high-interrupt-rate workloads [1].

But, with NAPI, multiple queues, threaded/split handlers, TCP offload,
interrupt moderation, RDMA etc, does anyone know it to be beneficial
in servers over the default kernel MSI vector setup? I can see it only
being beneficial in certain specific circumstances (eg metro VoIP
router) and perhaps that's application dependent at that.

Thanks,
  Daniel

[1] https://irqbalance.org/documentation.html
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Daniel J Blueman
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