Re: [LAU] irqbalance

From: Jeremy Jongepier <jeremy@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Sat Nov 21 2015 - 12:32:27 EET

On 11/12/2015 06:30 AM, Raffaele Morelli wrote:
> 2015-10-29 6:28 GMT+01:00 Brent Busby <brent@email-addr-hidden>:
>
>> On Debian/Ubuntu systems, the irqbalance package which tries to push
>> interrupts across all your CPU's fairly, has been part of the base
>> system for a long time. On Gentoo, it's an available package, but not
>> installed by default.
>>
>> Is irqbalance recommended for RT audio? Deprecated? Doesn't matter?
>>
>
> Why not just use rtirq?
>
> ​​http://alsa.opensrc.org/Rtirq

rtirq and irqbalance are different things. rtirq allows one to assign
priorities to softirqs while irqbalance balances IRQ requests between
CPU's. On a Linux audio system you would need both.

Jeremy

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