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

[Martin Waschbüsch]

> Am 20.02.2016 um 08:25 schrieb Alexandre DERUMIER <aderumier at odiso.com>:
> 
>>> 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.

Ah, I see. In that case it would make sense indeed.
The cards I use (both nic and sas/raid) employ one interrupt queue per core, so there never was anything for me to tune.