Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264510AbTEJVBx (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 May 2003 17:01:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264511AbTEJVBx (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 May 2003 17:01:53 -0400 Received: from amsfep11-int.chello.nl ([213.46.243.20]:49960 "EHLO amsfep11-int.chello.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264510AbTEJVBi (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 May 2003 17:01:38 -0400 From: Jos Hulzink To: linux-kernel Subject: irq balancing: performance disaster Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 01:18:10 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200305110118.10136.josh@stack.nl> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 628 Lines: 16 Hi, While tackling bug 699, it became clear to me that irq balancing is the cause of the performance problems I, and all people using the SMP kernel Mandrake 9.1 ships, are dealing with. I got the problems with 2.5.69 too. After disabling irq balancing, the system is remarkably faster, and much more responsive. For those interested in the issue, please look at bug 699. Jos - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/