On Sun, 2012-12-16 at 11:24 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > Package: linux > Version: 3.2.35-1 > Severity: important > Tags: patch > > Please include the attached patch in Wheezy, without it, irqbalance fails to > do its job properly on any server (actually any multi-core system with > MSI/MSI-X irqs). > > It is important to have irqbalance work properly out-of-the-box, since it is > the only trivial way to get better network/storage behaviour out of the > MSI-X capable NUMA systems that are >95% of the post-2010 server market.
Would be nice, but it has been broken for so long that 'everyone knows' to disable irqbalance. > I've tested the attached patch on stock (kernel.org) 3.2.34 on production, > and it works fine. The patch is very simple, it just publishes the MSI > IRQ vector information to sysfs, which irqbalance uses. Changes ABI, so will have to wait if we apply it at all. > git commit upstream: b50cac55bf859d5b2fdcc1803a553a251b703456 > > Alternatively, we might want to add it to -stable series upstream, on the > grounds that it is widely desired functionality (i.e. useful for all > distros). This doesn't suddenly become urgent because you just noticed it. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Always try to do things in chronological order; it's less confusing that way.
signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part
