Thanks for the reply Mitch. I knew that we had to use irqbalance with
APIC-based interrupts, but didn't know that held true in the MSI-X
world as well. Thanks for the info.
-richard
On Mar 10, 2009, at 10:07 AM, Williams, Mitch A wrote:
>> What I'm seeing: All of the interrupts are landing o
>What I'm seeing: All of the interrupts are landing on CPU0 and using
>up too much time for my liking. I'd like to spread the interrupts
>around some more, isn't this what having multiple queues is for? The
>userland irqbalance is disabled for now, as I thought the
>hardware and
>driver we
Goal: Enable multiple receive queues so that my servers can scale
beyond what a single can handle in terms of interrupts (hard and soft).
Environment: ET dual port PCI-express cards (82576), CentOS 5.2 with
2.6.18-92.1.22.el5 kernel, Dell PowerEdge 1950 servers, nginx
webserver/proxies, igb
