irqbalance superfluous

Istimsak Abdulbasir saqman2060 at gmail.com
Thu Apr 9 12:14:54 UTC 2015


What is the irqbalance and what was the reason for using it?
On Apr 9, 2015 8:09 AM, "Daniel J Blueman" <daniel at quora.org> wrote:

> Checked with Vivid beta on Intel i5 hardware, and it seems interrupt
> distribution doesn't change when I boot with irqbalance running [1],
> or after purging it and rebooting [2].
>
> Finally, it can't second guess MSI interrupt setup better than the
> APIC driver and adds a unnecessary layer of 'intelligence'. I don't
> see any case common enough to warrant deploying it by default.
>
> Anyone against removing it?
>
> Dan
>
> -- [1]
>
> root at nuc:~# cat /proc/interrupts
>            CPU0       CPU1       CPU2       CPU3
>   0:         18          0          0          0  IR-IO-APIC-edge
> timer
>   1:          1          1          0          1  IR-IO-APIC-edge
> i8042
>   7:          9          0          0          0  IR-IO-APIC-edge
>   8:          0          0          0          1  IR-IO-APIC-edge      rtc0
>   9:          3          0          0          0  IR-IO-APIC-fasteoi   acpi
>  12:          1          2          1          0  IR-IO-APIC-edge
> i8042
>  23:         11          1         15          6  IR-IO-APIC
> 23-fasteoi   ehci_hcd:usb3
>  40:          0          0          0          0  DMAR_MSI-edge      dmar0
>  41:          0          0          0          0  DMAR_MSI-edge      dmar1
>  42:          0          0          0          0  IR-PCI-MSI-edge
> PCIe PME
>  43:          0          0          0          0  IR-PCI-MSI-edge
> PCIe PME
>  44:         87         25         95         23  IR-PCI-MSI-edge
> xhci_hcd
>  45:       2740       4911       4405      14870  IR-PCI-MSI-edge
> 0000:00:1f.2
>  46:         10         10       2504          3  IR-PCI-MSI-edge      eth0
>  47:         12          1          1          0  IR-PCI-MSI-edge
> mei_me
>  48:          8         14          3          1  IR-PCI-MSI-edge
> iwlwifi
>  49:        496        594        290        331  IR-PCI-MSI-edge      i915
>  50:        197         80          4         39  IR-PCI-MSI-edge
> snd_hda_intel
>  51:        721          0          0         28  IR-PCI-MSI-edge
> snd_hda_intel
> NMI:          1          1          0          1   Non-maskable interrupts
> LOC:      30046      19983      13391      18318   Local timer interrupts
> SPU:          0          0          0          0   Spurious interrupts
> PMI:          1          1          0          1   Performance
> monitoring interrupts
> IWI:          0          0          0          0   IRQ work interrupts
> RTR:          2          0          0          0   APIC ICR read retries
> RES:        943       1130        618        693   Rescheduling interrupts
> CAL:        840        699        674        747   Function call interrupts
> TLB:        198        205        286       1241   TLB shootdowns
> TRM:          0          0          0          0   Thermal event interrupts
> THR:          0          0          0          0   Threshold APIC
> interrupts
> MCE:          0          0          0          0   Machine check exceptions
> MCP:          4          4          4          4   Machine check polls
> HYP:          0          0          0          0   Hypervisor callback
> interrupts
> ERR:          9
> MIS:          0
>
> -- [2]
>
> root at nuc:~# cat /proc/interrupts
>            CPU0       CPU1       CPU2       CPU3
>   0:         20          0          0          0  IR-IO-APIC-edge
> timer
>   1:          1          0          1          1  IR-IO-APIC-edge
> i8042
>   7:         11          0          0          0  IR-IO-APIC-edge
>   8:          0          0          0          1  IR-IO-APIC-edge      rtc0
>   9:          3          0          0          0  IR-IO-APIC-fasteoi   acpi
>  12:          3          0          1          0  IR-IO-APIC-edge
> i8042
>  23:         15         10         10          0  IR-IO-APIC
> 23-fasteoi   ehci_hcd:usb3
>  40:          0          0          0          0  DMAR_MSI-edge      dmar0
>  41:          0          0          0          0  DMAR_MSI-edge      dmar1
>  42:          0          0          0          0  IR-PCI-MSI-edge
> PCIe PME
>  43:          0          0          0          0  IR-PCI-MSI-edge
> PCIe PME
>  44:         48          9         98         11  IR-PCI-MSI-edge
> xhci_hcd
>  45:       3592        754       4633       1272  IR-PCI-MSI-edge
> 0000:00:1f.2
>  46:         37         23         89         13  IR-PCI-MSI-edge      eth0
>  47:         14          0          0          0  IR-PCI-MSI-edge
> mei_me
>  48:        291          0          4         25  IR-PCI-MSI-edge
> snd_hda_intel
>  49:         12         16          6          0  IR-PCI-MSI-edge
> iwlwifi
>  50:        246        132        154        288  IR-PCI-MSI-edge      i915
>  51:         25        673         13         42  IR-PCI-MSI-edge
> snd_hda_intel
> NMI:          0          0          0          0   Non-maskable interrupts
> LOC:       1041       1680        928        964   Local timer interrupts
> SPU:          0          0          0          0   Spurious interrupts
> PMI:          0          0          0          0   Performance
> monitoring interrupts
> IWI:          0          0          1          0   IRQ work interrupts
> RTR:          3          0          0          0   APIC ICR read retries
> RES:        374        517        311        305   Rescheduling interrupts
> CAL:        638        640        679        609   Function call interrupts
> TLB:       1628         93         49        110   TLB shootdowns
> TRM:          0          0          0          0   Thermal event interrupts
> THR:          0          0          0          0   Threshold APIC
> interrupts
> MCE:          0          0          0          0   Machine check exceptions
> MCP:          2          2          2          2   Machine check polls
> HYP:          0          0          0          0   Hypervisor callback
> interrupts
> ERR:         11
> MIS:          0
> --
> Daniel J Blueman
>
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