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...oes that actually stop XEN from balancing irqs across different physical cpus, or will that override the setting if there are too many interrupts and one of the cpus is overloaded. Example: i have 4 cpus and i have configured irqbalance= off, so there is no irqbalancing done by xen. Now if i have affintized all my physical interrutps to one cpu say cpu1 all the interrutps shpuld be handled by the cpu1 and so should all the softirqs generated. Now what happens if one of the other cpus is lightly loaded, will some of the softirqs be queued against the other cpus or will cpu1 handle all interrupts an...