Subject: Re: [PATCH] pktgen: add a new sample script for 40G and above link testing

From: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2017 16:59:29 +0200

On Fri, 25 Aug 2017 14:24:28 +0000
"Waskiewicz Jr, Peter" <[email-masked]> wrote:

> On 8/25/17 5:19 AM, Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote:
> >>
> >> Tested with Intel XL710 NIC with Cisco 3172 switch.
> >>
> >> It would be even slightly better if the irqbalance service is turned
> >> off outside.  
> > 
> > Yes, if you don't turn-off (kill) irqbalance it will move around the
> > IRQs behind your back...  
> 
> Or you can use the --banirq option to irqbalance to ignore your device's 
> interrupts as targets for balancing.

It might be worth mentioning that --banirq=X is specified for each IRQ
that you want to exclude, and --banirq is simply specified multiple
times on the command line.

Is it possible to tell a running irqbalance that I want to excluded an
extra IRQ? (just before I do my manual adjustment).

-- 
Best regards,
  Jesper Dangaard Brouer
  MSc.CS, Principal Kernel Engineer at Red Hat
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