Interrupt requests for eth0 are being handled by one processor in my multiple processor system. Can I round-robin the network interface interrupts over multiple processors?

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This is not recommended and can cause severe performance issues. This has been discussed on the Linux kernel mailing list.

http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/9/11/488

The irqbalance daemon specifically overlooks network interface card interrupts for this reason.

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