What kernel versions will attempt to distribute jobs across physical CPUs on
Xeon SMP configurations.
Mike
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On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, Mike Sullivan wrote:
> What kernel versions will attempt to distribute jobs across physical CPUs on
> Xeon SMP configurations.
>From what I've heard, Arjans' user space daemon might be the way
things are going, it's at http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/irqbalance/ .
The other way that you might try is the irq load balance patch that Ingo
produced. There is a patch that is from 2.4.20 at
http://www.hardrock.org/kernel/2.4.20/ and it is what I'm using at work on
our current Xeon systems (until I have the chance to test the user space
daemon at least).
Hope that helps.
Regards
James Bourne
> Mike
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On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, Mike Sullivan wrote:
>> What kernel versions will attempt to distribute jobs across physical CPUs on
>> Xeon SMP configurations.
On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 10:45:18PM -0700, James Bourne wrote:
> From what I've heard, Arjans' user space daemon might be the way
> things are going, it's at http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/irqbalance/ .
> The other way that you might try is the irq load balance patch that Ingo
> produced. There is a patch that is from 2.4.20 at
> http://www.hardrock.org/kernel/2.4.20/ and it is what I'm using at work on
> our current Xeon systems (until I have the chance to test the user space
> daemon at least).
I think he's referring to the cpu scheduler, not interrupt load
balancing. mingo might have some insight into current patches for
this and current results thereof. I don't really participate in
the scheduler aside from very occasional bugfixing.
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