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

[Alexandre DERUMIER]

>>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. 

Well, the article is about to disabling irqbalance AND manually binding cpus on network interfaces.

Manual binding is better because you can fine tuning.

But using irqbalance vs do nothing, irqbalance wins.

I have seen a lot of system, using only cpu0 for network interrupts for example.

Benching ceph, I was stuck around 100000iops 4k (client side/proxmox host) without irqbalance, and 300000 iops with irqbalance.
(This was with 10gbe mellanox cards)


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De: "Martin Waschbüsch" <service at waschbuesch.it>
À: "pve-devel" <pve-devel at pve.proxmox.com>
Envoyé: Vendredi 19 Février 2016 15:42:09
Objet: Re: [pve-devel] pve-kernel package : add irqbalance as recommended	? (like debian linux-image package)

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 
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