[pve-devel] pve-kernel package : add irqbalance as recommended ? (like debian linux-image package)

[Martin Waschbüsch]

Hi Alexandre,

> Am 19.02.2016 um 15:06 schrieb Alexandre DERUMIER <aderumier at odiso.com>:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I think it could be great to add irqbalance as recommends package for pve-kernel.
> 
> I have seen a lot of improvement, mainly with network access (ceph for example),
> when a lot of network interrupts occurs and goes to the same cpu.

Some articles, for instance https://www.kernel.org/doc/ols/2009/ols2009-pages-169-184.pdf,
explicitly recommend disabling irqbalance when 10GbE is involved.

Do you know if this is still true today? After all, the paper is from 2009.

Best,

Martin