From: users-bounces(a)lists.fedoraproject.org [users-bounces(a)lists.fedoraproject.org] On
Behalf Of Michael Cronenworth
Benjamin wrote:
> I am using fedora 15 for application server.That applicaton is very
> loaded in network and we have good h/w which having 4 core cpu and
> currently 1 lan interface are using.So now i want to bind that interface
> with more than one cpu to gain more performance and more throughput.
>
> I tried to do it by smp_afinity, but i can't. so i need advice and help.
> Is there anything required from kernel side.? any parameter or any thing
> which need to enable in kernel.?
The kernel will automatically load balance interrupts. There is no need
to configure the affinity of your interrupts by hand.
Maybe the original poster need to look at whether the application can support multiple
processors or multi-threading? Or bonding the ethernet interfaces to create a bigger
pipe?