On Wed, 2006-27-12 at 01:28 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > current irqbalance accounts for napi by using the number of packets as > indicator for load, not the number of interrupts. (for network > interrupts obviously) >
Sounds a lot more promising. Although still insufficient in certain cases. All flows are not equal; as an example, an IPSEC flow with 1000 packets bound to one CPU will likely utilize more cycles than 5000 packets that are being plain forwarded on another CPU. cheers, jamal - 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
