On 11/12/2015 06:30 AM, Raffaele Morelli wrote:
  2015-10-29 6:28 GMT+01:00 Brent Busby
<brent(a)keycorner.org>rg>:
  On Debian/Ubuntu systems, the irqbalance package
which tries to push
 interrupts across all your CPU's fairly, has been part of the base
 system for a long time.  On Gentoo, it's an available package, but not
 installed by default.
 Is irqbalance recommended for RT audio?  Deprecated?  Doesn't matter?
 
 Why not just use rtirq?
 http://alsa.opensrc.org/Rtirq 
rtirq and irqbalance are different things. rtirq allows one to assign
priorities to softirqs while irqbalance balances IRQ requests between
CPU's. On a Linux audio system you would need both.
Jeremy