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I am trying to post the following question and getting this post does not meet our quality standards. Can someone please tell me why? Can I suggest more constructive denials?

I have a machine with 32 cpus (NUMA) running CentOS 6.4. I would like to dedicate cpus 0-27 to my application, and leave the other 4 for everything else, including irq handling.

Is it enough to set isolcpus=0-27 in grub.conf, or do I need to also configure irqbalance to mask IRQBALANCE_BANNED_CPUS=0fffffff ?

I thought I could verify this with cat /proc/irq/*/smp_affinity after setting that irqbalance variable and restarting, but I see affinities like this:

0000ff00
0000ff00
ffffffff
0000ff00
0000ff00
0000ff00
0000ff00
0000ff00
0000ff00
00ff0000
00ff0000
00ff0000
00ff0000
ffffffff
00ff0000
00ff0000
00ff0000
00ff0000
ff000000
ff000000
ff000000

or, if I start irqbalance in the foreground with --debug, I see this:

NUMA NODE NUMBER: 0
LOCAL CPU MASK: 000000ff

NUMA NODE NUMBER: 1
LOCAL CPU MASK: 0000ff00

NUMA NODE NUMBER: 2
LOCAL CPU MASK: 00ff0000

NUMA NODE NUMBER: 3
LOCAL CPU MASK: ff000000

both of which make me think irqbalance doesn't work properly with NUMA, etc. Any ideas?

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See here: What can I do when getting “It does not meet our quality standards”?

It's probably your subject line, or the fact that there's too many large code blocks, making the system think you're asking us to plz send teh codes.

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  • same thing without the code blocks. I tried a longer title and it worked, thanks.
    – carillonator
    Commented May 6, 2013 at 22:57

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