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From: jamal <hadi@cyberus•ca>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead•org>
Cc: Robert Iakobashvili <coroberti@gmail•com>, netdev@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: Network card IRQ balancing with Intel 5000 series chipsets
Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2006 22:47:59 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1167191279.3746.60.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1167179309.3281.3342.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>

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


  reply	other threads:[~2006-12-27  3:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-12-24  9:34 Network card IRQ balancing with Intel 5000 series chipsets Robert Iakobashvili
2006-12-25  9:35 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-12-25 11:26   ` Robert Iakobashvili
2006-12-25 11:34     ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-12-25 12:54       ` Robert Iakobashvili
2006-12-26 18:44         ` jamal
2006-12-26 19:51           ` Robert Iakobashvili
2006-12-26 22:11             ` jamal
2007-01-02 17:56               ` Rick Jones
2006-12-26 22:06           ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-12-26 22:46             ` jamal
2006-12-27  0:28               ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-12-27  3:47                 ` jamal [this message]
2006-12-27  7:09                   ` Robert Iakobashvili
2006-12-27 14:31                     ` jamal
2006-12-29  2:04                       ` Krzysztof Oledzki
2006-12-29 17:36                         ` Robert Iakobashvili
2006-12-27 13:08                   ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-12-27 14:44                     ` jamal
2006-12-27 15:06                       ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-01-02 17:57                 ` Rick Jones

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