From owner-freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 13 08:52:48 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC30B636 for ; Mon, 13 May 2013 08:52:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from menyy@mellanox.com) Received: from eu1sys200aog114.obsmtp.com (eu1sys200aog114.obsmtp.com [207.126.144.137]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E4FCF3A for ; Mon, 13 May 2013 08:52:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from MTLCAS01.mtl.com ([193.47.165.155]) (using TLSv1) by eu1sys200aob114.postini.com ([207.126.147.11]) with SMTP ID DSNKUZCp2SZ5Zf0zwpSFB/0LVW0sPA3BsfLg@postini.com; Mon, 13 May 2013 08:52:48 UTC Received: from MTLDAG01.mtl.com ([10.0.8.75]) by MTLCAS01.mtl.com ([10.0.8.71]) with mapi id 14.03.0123.003; Mon, 13 May 2013 11:43:27 +0300 From: Meny Yossefi To: "freebsd-performance@freebsd.org" Subject: irq balancer Thread-Topic: irq balancer Thread-Index: Ac5Ps87sQU00seXNQmKfSsa3zcswew== Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 08:43:19 +0000 Message-ID: Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: x-originating-ip: [10.0.13.1] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 X-BeenThere: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Performance/tuning List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 08:52:49 -0000 Hi, I'm running FreeBSD 9.1. I was wandering if there's a way to distribute hardware interrupts (pinning= an interrupt handler to a specific CPU) across processors for performance = benefits. Linux has a process called irqbalancer for exactly that purpose. Is there a= n equivalent in FreeBSD ? Thanks, Meny