Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262232AbTHTVTS (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Aug 2003 17:19:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262234AbTHTVTS (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Aug 2003 17:19:18 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]:14304 "EHLO main.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262232AbTHTVTR (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Aug 2003 17:19:17 -0400 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Jens Gecius Subject: 2.6.0-test3 smp irq balance Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 23:03:57 +0200 Message-ID: <878yporqgy.fsf@maniac.gecius.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) XEmacs/21.4 (Rational FORTRAN, i386-debian-linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:MJI1MkkHiqnBHv68Y1NRc/fLBcc= Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1718 Lines: 38 Hi! having switched to 2.6.0-t3 to test some of the new features, I noticed more framedrops from bttv. sometimes the system feels a little sluggish, although i expected the opposite. trying to track down the "problem" I stumbled across this: jens@maniac:/usr/src/linux$ cat /proc/interrupts CPU0 CPU1 0: 91133739 29 IO-APIC-edge timer 1: 43765 1 IO-APIC-edge i8042 2: 0 0 XT-PIC cascade 4: 774189 0 IO-APIC-edge serial 5: 9337660 1 IO-APIC-level ohci1394, uhci-hcd, uhci-hcd 8: 4 0 IO-APIC-edge rtc 9: 15340458 1 IO-APIC-level Ensoniq AudioPCI, eth1 10: 1233326 5 IO-APIC-level ide3, eth0 11: 21436308 1 IO-APIC-level nvidia, bttv0 14: 884901 0 IO-APIC-edge ide0 15: 126 2 IO-APIC-edge ide1 NMI: 0 0 LOC: 91137709 91138393 ERR: 0 MIS: 12 irqs seem not to be distributed between cpus, having one to handle all (even while building kernel on both cpus (according to gkrell), the numbers for the second cpu don't change. i could post any needed information (hopefully). The bootup process did not show anything raising questions to me. any hints? -- Tschoe, http://gecius.de/gpg-key.txt - Fingerprint: Jens 1AAB 67A2 1068 77CA 6B0A 41A4 18D4 A89B 28D0 F097 - 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/