I found this.  It looks like it might be
of interest to you.
http://cae.best.vwh.net/irqtune/
Atte André Jensen wrote:
  Hi
 Reading the thread(s) on realtime-kernels, I decided to have another go
 at putting my sound card (IBM T41 laptop) on it's own IRQ. Through luck,
 some black BIOS-magic and help from linux thinkpad mailing list I
 managed to move the sound card, PC-card, modem and SMBus
 controller(whatever that is) to their own IRQ. I'm still trying to get
 *only* the sound card's IRQ moved.
 My question is: Since I don't use the pc-card or the modem, and provided
 that SMBus is something I don't use, will having these extra stuff on
 the same IRQ as the sound card be a problem? Will it make any difference
 if I don't load the kernel modules for the pc card/modem thereby
 disabling them?