Re: Should kirqd work on HT?

2005-02-20 Thread Jeff Garzik
Martin J. Bligh wrote: --Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Saturday, February 19, 2005 11:30:53 -0500): Pallipadi, Venkatesh wrote: You are right. Kernel balancer doesn't move around the irqs, unless it has too many interrupts. The logic is moving around interrupts all the time will not b

Re: Should kirqd work on HT?

2005-02-20 Thread Martin J. Bligh
> I've noticed this problem for a while, but only now decided to ask. > Interrupt balancing doesn't do anything on my system. > >CPU0 CPU1 > 0: 31931808 0IO-APIC-edge timer > 1: 76595 0IO-APIC-edge i8042 > 8: 1 0IO-AP

Re: Should kirqd work on HT?

2005-02-20 Thread Martin J. Bligh
--Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Saturday, February 19, 2005 11:30:53 -0500): > Pallipadi, Venkatesh wrote: >> You are right. Kernel balancer doesn't move around the irqs, unless it >> has too many interrupts. The logic is moving around interrupts all the >> time will not be good on ca

Re: Should kirqd work on HT?

2005-02-19 Thread Jeff Garzik
Pallipadi, Venkatesh wrote: You are right. Kernel balancer doesn't move around the irqs, unless it has too many interrupts. The logic is moving around interrupts all the time will not be good on caches. So, there is a threshold above which the balancer start moving things around. You should see the

RE: Should kirqd work on HT?

2005-02-19 Thread Pallipadi, Venkatesh
ou do 'ping -f' or a big 'dd' from the disk. Thanks, Venki >-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nigel >Cunningham >Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2005 1:02 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Cc: Linux Kerne

Re: Should kirqd work on HT?

2005-02-19 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Sat, 2005-02-19 at 21:58 +1100, Nigel Cunningham wrote: > Hi again. > > Didn't realise it was going to take nothing to install, so I've done it. > IRQs are running on cpu 1 now. Is there some documentation somewhere? > I'm wondering whether I can compile kirqd out. with irqbalance running yes

Re: Should kirqd work on HT?

2005-02-19 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi again. Didn't realise it was going to take nothing to install, so I've done it. IRQs are running on cpu 1 now. Is there some documentation somewhere? I'm wondering whether I can compile kirqd out. Thanks and regards, Nigel On Sat, 2005-02-19 at 20:36, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Sat, 2005-0

Re: Should kirqd work on HT?

2005-02-19 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi, On Sat, 2005-02-19 at 20:36, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Sat, 2005-02-19 at 20:07 +1100, Nigel Cunningham wrote: > > Hi Jeff. > > > > On Sat, 2005-02-19 at 17:52, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > Nigel Cunningham wrote: > > > What are the results of running irqbalanced? > > > > You mean the debuggi

Re: Should kirqd work on HT?

2005-02-19 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Sat, 2005-02-19 at 20:02 +1100, Nigel Cunningham wrote: > Hi. > > On Sat, 2005-02-19 at 17:44, Kwijibo wrote: > > My guess is that irqbalance is not running. > > No. It is. > > USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND > root 301 0.0 0.0 00 ?

Re: Should kirqd work on HT?

2005-02-19 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Sat, 2005-02-19 at 20:07 +1100, Nigel Cunningham wrote: > Hi Jeff. > > On Sat, 2005-02-19 at 17:52, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > Nigel Cunningham wrote: > > What are the results of running irqbalanced? > > You mean the debugging output? I can reenable it and record the results > if that's what you m

Re: Should kirqd work on HT?

2005-02-19 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi Jeff. On Sat, 2005-02-19 at 17:52, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Nigel Cunningham wrote: > What are the results of running irqbalanced? You mean the debugging output? I can reenable it and record the results if that's what you mean. >From memory though, it got to not_worth_the_effort via this code:

Re: Should kirqd work on HT?

2005-02-19 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi. On Sat, 2005-02-19 at 17:44, Kwijibo wrote: > My guess is that irqbalance is not running. No. It is. USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND root 301 0.0 0.0 00 ?SW 16:52 0:00 [kirqd] The debugging info reports that it doesn't think

Re: Should kirqd work on HT?

2005-02-18 Thread Jeff Garzik
Nigel Cunningham wrote: Hi all. I've noticed this problem for a while, but only now decided to ask. Interrupt balancing doesn't do anything on my system. CPU0 CPU1 0: 31931808 0IO-APIC-edge timer 1: 76595 0IO-APIC-edge i8042 8: 1

Re: Should kirqd work on HT?

2005-02-18 Thread Kwijibo
My guess is that irqbalance is not running. Nigel Cunningham wrote: Hi all. I've noticed this problem for a while, but only now decided to ask. Interrupt balancing doesn't do anything on my system. CPU0 CPU1 0: 31931808 0IO-APIC-edge timer 1: 76595 0

Should kirqd work on HT?

2005-02-18 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi all. I've noticed this problem for a while, but only now decided to ask. Interrupt balancing doesn't do anything on my system. CPU0 CPU1 0: 31931808 0IO-APIC-edge timer 1: 76595 0IO-APIC-edge i8042 8: 1 0IO-APIC-ed