Re: [PATCH] NUMA-Q disable irqbalance

[Linus Torvalds]

On 13 Aug 2002, Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> On a collection of networking workloads the P4 is about 5% better
> performing with the irq balancer off.

Hmm. And I could _feel_ how my dual HT P4 was slow before the irq issues 
were fixed.

Now, there have been other changes too - like the scheduler (and my
current P4 has a different SCSI interface), but I dunno. The thing I 
attributed the improvements in interactive feel was the fact that the work 
got balanced out more sanely.

		Linus