On Tue, 2006-12-26 at 13:44 -0500, jamal wrote: > If you compile in PCI-E support you should have more control of the > MSI-X, no? I would tie the MSI to a specific processor statically; my > past experiences with any form of interupt balancing with network loads > has been horrible.
it is; that's why irqbalance tries really hard (with a few very rare exceptions) to keep networking irqs to the same cpu all the time... but if your use case is kernel level packet processing of < MTU packets then I can see why you would at some point would run out of cpu power ... esp on multicore where you share the cache between cores you probably can do a little better for that very specific use case. -- if you want to mail me at work (you don't), use arjan (at) linux.intel.com Test the interaction between Linux and your BIOS via http://www.linuxfirmwarekit.org - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
