Re: BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#5 / xfsdatad

[Iustin Pop <iusty@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 03:47:11PM +0200, Christian Røsnes wrote:
> Thank you for the information.
> 
> Is there a preferred way of distributing interrupts across several Xeon 
> cpus ?
I'm not sure, but how about irq-balance?
~$ apt-cache search irq balance
irqbalance - Balances irq's for SMP systems

Description: Balances irq's for SMP systems
 Daemon to balance irq's across multiple CPUs on systems with the 2.4
 or 2.6 kernel. This can lead to better performance and IO balance on
 SMP systems. Useful mostly just for 2.4 kernels, or 2.6 kernels with
 CONFIG_IRQBALANCE turned off.

So either you install this or configure the kernel with
CONFIG_IRQBALANCE (though I have never seen this option).

Regards,
Iustin