> 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?
Depends on the interrupt controller. I don't know that machine but for example the Apple Dual G5's use an MPIC that can spread based on an internal HW round robin scheme. This isn't always the best idea tho for cache reasons... depends if an at what level your caches are shared between CPUs. Ben. _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev