NAME¶
irqbalance - distribute hardware interrupts across processors on a
multiprocessor system
SYNOPSIS¶
irqbalance
DESCRIPTION¶
The purpose of
irqbalance is distribute hardware interrupts across
processors on a multiprocessor system in order to increase performance.
OPTIONS¶
- --oneshot
- Causes irqbalance to be run once, after which the daemon exits
- --debug
- Causes irqbalance to print extra debug information. Implies --foreground
- --foreground
- Causes irqbalance to run in the foreground (without --debug)
- --hintpolicy=[exact | subset | ignore]
- Set the policy for how irq kernel affinity hinting is treated. Can be one
of:
exact irq affinity hint is applied unilaterally and never violated
subset irq is balanced, but the assigned object will be a subset of the
affintiy hint
ignore irq affinity hint value is completely ignored
- --powerthresh=<threshold>
- Set the threshold at which we attempt to move a cpu into powersave mode If
more than <threshold> cpus are more than 1 standard deviation below
the average cpu softirq workload, and no cpus are more than 1 standard
deviation above (and have more than 1 irq assigned to them), attempt to
place 1 cpu in powersave mode. In powersave mode, a cpu will not have any
irqs balanced to it, in an effort to prevent that cpu from waking up
without need.
- --banirq=<irqnum>
- Add the specified irq to the set of banned irqs. irqbalance will not
affect the affinity of any irqs on the banned list, allowing them to be
specified manually. This option is addative and can be specified multiple
times. For example to ban irqs 43 and 44 from balancing, use the following
command line: irqbalance --banirq=43 --banirq=44
- --policyscript=<script>
- When specified, the referenced script will execute once for each
discovered irq, with the sysfs device path and irq number passed as
arguments. The script may specify zero or more key=value pairs that will
guide irqbalance in the management of that irq. Key=value pairs are
printed by the script on stdout and will be captured and interpreted by
irqbalance. Irqbalance expects a zero exit code from the provided utility.
Recognized key=value pairs are:
- ban=[true | false]
- Directs irqbalance to exclude the passed in irq from balancing
- balance_level=[none | package | cache | core]
- This allows a user to override the balance level of a given irq. By
default the balance level is determined automatically based on the pci
device class of the device that owns the irq.
- numa_node=<integer>
- This allows a user to override the numa node that sysfs indicates a given
device irq is local to. Often, systems will not specify this information
in ACPI, and as a result devicesa are considered equidistant from all numa
nodes in a system. This option allows for that hardware provided
information to be overridden, so that irqbalance can bias irq affinity for
these devices toward its most local node. Note that specifying a -1 here
forces irqbalance to consider an interrupt from a device to be equidistant
from all nodes.
- --pid=<file>
- Have irqbalance write its process id to the specified file. By default no
pidfile is written. The written pidfile is automatically unlinked when
irqbalance exits.
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES¶
- IRQBALANCE_ONESHOT
- Same as --oneshot
- IRQBALANCE_DEBUG
- Same as --debug
- IRQBALANCE_BANNED_CPUS
- Provides a mask of cpus which irqbalance should ignore and never assign
interrupts to
SIGNALS¶
- SIGHUP
- Forces a rescan of the available irqs and system topology
Homepage¶
http://code.google.com/p/irqbalance