Odroid XU4 / HC1 / HC2 / MC1 | irqbalance 1.9.2 not working slow LAN

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Required Information

  • DietPi version | G_DIETPI_VERSION_CORE=9
  • Distro version | bookworm
  • Kernel version | 6.6.43-current-odroidxu4
  • Architecture | armhf
  • SBC model | Odroid XU3/XU4/MC1/HC1/HC2 (armv7l) or (EG: RPi3)
  • Power supply used | 5V 4A Meanwell
  • SD card used | AGFA 32GB Cl.10 U1

Additional Information (if applicable)

  • Software title | irqbalance
  • Was the software title installed freshly or updated/migrated? freshly installed
  • Can this issue be replicated on a fresh installation of DietPi? yes
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  • Bug report ID | not applicable

Steps to reproduce

Without irqbalance all CPU load is allocated to LITTLE CPU 0 only.
LAN is connected to xhci-hcd:usb5 and you will get max 300mbit/s.

Using irqbalance 1.7.0-1 armhf on dietpi bullseye the load is spread between LITTLE CPU0 and big CPU4 and you will get over 900mbit/s.

           CPU0       CPU1       CPU2       CPU3       CPU4       CPU5       CPU6       CPU7
135:       1145          0          0          0    1867342          0          0          0     GICv2 105 Level     xhci-hcd:usb5

On latest bookworm image there is irqbalance 1.9.2-1 armhf available which does not work! No IRQ-balancing happens.
It does exactly nothing and network speed keeps slow at 300mbit/s.

           CPU0       CPU1       CPU2       CPU3       CPU4       CPU5       CPU6       CPU7
140:     140567          0          0          0          0          0          0          0     GICv2 105 Level     xhci-hcd:usb5

Expected behaviour

  • enabled irqbalance.service should balance the cpu-load caused by network traffic to at least one big.core

Actual behaviour

  • enabled and running irqbalance.service does nothing and network is far from gigabit (300mbit max)

Extra details

  • on bullseye with irqbalance 1.7.0-1 everything works like expected, lan speed ca. 900mbit+
  • on bookworm with irqbalance 1.9.2-1 nothing happens, lan speed max 300mbit-
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We donā€™t maintain this package. Might be something that would need to be reported to package maintainers

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