Re: irqbalance mandatory on SMP kernels?

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Robert M. Stockmann wrote:
Hi,

I noticed that the latest editions of RedHat EL 4.3 and direct
descendants today need a program called irqbalance to activate
true SMP IRQ load balancing for your machine's hardware.

If one boots a SMP kernel (2.4.xx or 2.6.xx) kernel on a machine
which either has 2 or more physical CPU's (also dual-core CPU's) , and one does not start up the irqbalance util from the kernel-utils package ( see e.g.

There is an in-kernel IRQ balancer. Redhat just choose to turn it
off, and do it in userspace instead. You can re-enable it if you
compile your own kernel.

M.
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