[PATCH] genirq: Set initial default irq affinity to just CPU0

David Miller davem at davemloft.net
Sun Oct 26 15:05:13 EST 2008


From: Kevin Diggs <kevdig at hypersurf.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 15:53:46 -0700

> What does this all mean to my GigE (dual 1.1 GHz 7455s)? Is this
> thing supposed to be able to spread irq between its cpus?

Networking interrupts should lock onto a single CPU, unconditionally.
That's the optimal way to handle networking interrupts, especially
with multiqueue chips.

This is what the userland IRQ balance daemon does.



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