[Mageia-dev] irqbalance

Sun Sep 30 15:58:26 CEST 2012

'Twas brillig, and Thomas Backlund at 30/09/12 14:44 did gyre and gimble:
+> 30.09.2012 16:39, Colin Guthrie skrev:
+>> 'Twas brillig, and Colin Guthrie at 27/09/12 17:05 did gyre and gimble:
+>>> 'Twas brillig, and Thomas Backlund at 27/09/12 16:09 did gyre and
+>>> gimble:
+>>>> Colin Guthrie skrev 27.9.2012 15:31:
+>>>>> 'Twas brillig, and Anne Wilson at 27/09/12 11:02 did gyre and gimble:
+>>>>>>
+>>>>>> While the new reboot is completing, and while I remember - irqbalance
+>>>>>> daemon always fails to start.  I've assumed it's not relevant?
+>>>>>
+>>>>> I noticed this yesterday too. It has a very incomplete systemd unit
+>>>>> for
+>>>>> some reason. Will have to investigate who added that without
+>>>>> checking it.
+>>>>>
+>>>>
+>>>> I did ... for Mga2 the service file shipped in irqbalance-1.0.3 tarball
+>>>> works, but for the updated 1.0.4 in Cauldron upstream did this:
+>>>>
+>>>> --- irqbalance-1.0.3/misc/irqbalance.service
+>>>> +++ irqbalance-1.0.4/misc/irqbalance.service
+>>>> @@ -3,9 +3,8 @@ Description=irqbalance daemon
+>>>>   After=syslog.target
+>>>>
+>>>>   [Service]
+>>>> -EnvironmentFile=/etc/sysconfig/irqbalance
+>>>> -Type=forking
+>>>> -ExecStart=/usr/sbin/irqbalance $ONESHOT
+>>>> +EnvironmentFile=/path/to/irqbalance.env
+>>>> +ExecStart=/usr/sbin/irqbalance --foreground $IRQBALANCE_ARGS
+>>>
+>>> Well, I'm glad upstream have made their unit much better :p
+>>
+>> Interestingly with the updated version, irqbalance --foreground seems to
+>> exit after about 10s which isn't very useful.
+>>
+> 
+> No such problem here... it stays active all the time...
+> 
+> Any info in the any logs ?
+
+Not that I can see. It does seem to run for almost exactly 10s tho'.
+
+It starts up quick and the delay happens after outputting "LOCAL CPU
+MASK: 00000003"
+
+
+[root at jimmy ~]# date;/usr/sbin/irqbalance --foreground --debug;date
+Sun 30 Sep 14:56:20 BST 2012
+Package 0:  numa_node is 0 cpu mask is 00000003 (load 0)
+        Cache domain 0:  numa_node is 0 cpu mask is 00000003  (load 0)
+                CPU number 0  numa_node is 0 (load 0)
+                CPU number 1  numa_node is 0 (load 0)
+Adding IRQ 16 to database
+Adding IRQ 42 to database
+Adding IRQ 40 to database
+Adding IRQ 41 to database
+Adding IRQ 20 to database
+Adding IRQ 21 to database
+Adding IRQ 22 to database
+Adding IRQ 23 to database
+DROPPING DUPLICATE ENTRY FOR IRQ 20 on path
+/sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:00:1d.7
+Adding IRQ 17 to database
+DROPPING DUPLICATE ENTRY FOR IRQ 17 on path
+/sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:00:1f.3
+DROPPING DUPLICATE ENTRY FOR IRQ 17 on path
+/sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:03:00.0
+Adding IRQ 19 to database
+Adding IRQ 18 to database
+DROPPING DUPLICATE ENTRY FOR IRQ 18 on path
+/sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:03:01.2
+DROPPING DUPLICATE ENTRY FOR IRQ 18 on path
+/sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:03:01.3
+Adding IRQ 43 to database
+NUMA NODE NUMBER: -1
+LOCAL CPU MASK:
+ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,
+ ffffffff,
+ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff
+
+NUMA NODE NUMBER: 0
+LOCAL CPU MASK: 00000003
+
+
+
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+Package 0:  numa_node is 0 cpu mask is 00000003 (load 0)
+        Cache domain 0:  numa_node is 0 cpu mask is 00000003  (load 0)
+                CPU number 0  numa_node is 0 (load 0)
+                  Interrupt 43 node_num is -1 (ethernet/0)
+                CPU number 1  numa_node is 0 (load 0)
+          Interrupt 41 node_num is -1 (legacy/0)
+          Interrupt 40 node_num is -1 (legacy/0)
+          Interrupt 19 node_num is -1 (legacy/0)
+          Interrupt 17 node_num is -1 (storage/0)
+          Interrupt 23 node_num is -1 (legacy/0)
+          Interrupt 22 node_num is -1 (legacy/0)
+          Interrupt 21 node_num is -1 (legacy/0)
+          Interrupt 20 node_num is -1 (legacy/0)
+  Interrupt 18 node_num is -1 (other/0)
+  Interrupt 42 node_num is -1 (other/0)
+  Interrupt 16 node_num is -1 (other/0)
+Sun 30 Sep 14:56:30 BST 2012
+
+
+-- 
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