IRQ affinity
Matt Roth
mroth at imminc.com
Mon May 1 18:58:56 UTC 2006
Gangaraju.Chowki wrote:
> I have installed fedora-2.6.9-1.681 on SMP 4 way processor(Intel(R)
> Xeon(TM) CPU 3.00GHz).
>
> when i tried to bind IRQ processing to specific CPU or number of CPUs by
> setting up smp_affinity,affinity value getting changed but within secs the
> sysetm randomly chaging with some other values..(for all IRQ's on the
> system).
>
> I think you undestood me.
>
> Any help appreciated!
Gangaraju,
The irqbalance daemon is changing the affinity values. It is safe to
stop it.
For more details, see this post:
Re: Is irqbalance Redundant on 2.6 Kernels? - Resolved
<http://www.redhat.com/archives/rhl-list/2006-March/msg06227.html>
Matthew Roth
InterMedia Marketing Solutions
Software Engineer and Systems Developer
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