Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932336AbWAJV2m (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jan 2006 16:28:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932347AbWAJV2m (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jan 2006 16:28:42 -0500 Received: from dvhart.com ([64.146.134.43]:12929 "EHLO dvhart.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932336AbWAJV2l (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jan 2006 16:28:41 -0500 Message-ID: <43C42708.4020108@mbligh.org> Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 13:28:40 -0800 From: Martin Bligh User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051011) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Josef Sipek Cc: Jesper Juhl , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Although CONFIG_IRQBALANCE is enabled IRQ's don't seem to be balanced very well References: <9a8748490601100314u26d4a566uc41a1912e410ea46@mail.gmail.com> <20060110203115.GB5479@filer.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu> In-Reply-To: <20060110203115.GB5479@filer.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 685 Lines: 21 Josef Sipek wrote: > On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 12:14:42PM +0100, Jesper Juhl wrote: > >>Do I need any userspace tools in addition to CONFIG_IRQBALANCE? > > > Last I checked, yes you do need "irqbalance" (at least that's what > the package is called in debian. Nope - you need the kernel option turned on OR the userspace daemon, not both. If you're not generating interrupts at a high enough rate, it won't rotate. That's deliberate. M. - 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/