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Re: xfslogd on SMP systems

To: Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: xfslogd on SMP systems
From: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2003 05:28:31 +0200
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> It is being reworked. The threads handle I/O completion on a per cpu
> basis, interrupts hand work off to the thread on the same cpu. Xeons
> deliver all their interrupts to cpu 0 by default, so all the work
> goes one place. Ask intel about this one.

There are various patches to do irq balancing in software (from
Intel, from Ingo Molnar, from Andreas Arcangeli). You can
even do it in user space using irqbalanced. Near all vendor kernels are 
shipping with some version of these patches. 2.5 has it too. Only Marcelo
has not yet merged them.

I would rather get users to apply these patches or run
irqbalanced than rework XFS.

-Andi


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