netdev - Different scheduler behavior between 2.4 and 2.6

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Date:	Tue, 8 May 2007 11:07:34 +0800
From:	"Quan Sun" <cfk.quan@...il.com>
To:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Different scheduler behavior between 2.4 and 2.6

Hi,
   Recently I met a problem on different scheduler behavior between
2.4.22 and 2.6.18.8.
   The application works as a proxy, it listen on an interface,
connect through another interface. This application works on a box
with two Xeon cpu, each of them is hyper-threading.
   On 2.4.22, CPU0 serve interrupts, the application works on other
three CPUs.
   But on 2.6.18.8, if I turn on 'noirqbalance' kernel parameter, and no
irqbalance  process, the application will stuck to CPU0 as well as interrupts
after several seconds' working. Then there will be a 0% idle cpu, and
three 100%idle CPUs.

  /proc/interrupt shows all eths's interrupts are working at CPU0.

  It seems that scheduler ignores the working load of interrupts.

   My question is, is there a way to tune 2.6 kernel working as 2.4?
Just one cpu for interrupts, other three cpu for normal work.

-- 
wonvoo
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