You are right. Kernel balancer doesn't move around the irqs, unless it has too many interrupts. The logic is moving around interrupts all the time will not be good on caches. So, there is a threshold above which the balancer start moving things around.
You should see them moving around if you do 'ping -f' or a big 'dd' from the disk. Thanks, Venki >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nigel >Cunningham >Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2005 1:02 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List >Subject: Re: Should kirqd work on HT? > >Hi. > >On Sat, 2005-02-19 at 17:44, Kwijibo wrote: >> My guess is that irqbalance is not running. > >No. It is. > >USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND >root 301 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW 16:52 0:00 [kirqd] > >The debugging info reports that it doesn't think it's worth doing the >balancing. > >Regards, > >Nigel >-- >Nigel Cunningham >Software Engineer, Canberra, Australia >http://www.cyclades.com > >Ph: +61 (2) 6292 8028 Mob: +61 (417) 100 574 > >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe >linux-kernel" in >the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
