Shared Virtual IPs unexpectedly toggling between two CARP members on 2.1.4

[andrew4902]

I believe the issue may be due to interrupts. From watching top (top -P CC), I see that the interrupts are only hitting one CPU. Is there a way to balance that load across both CPU's?

last pid: 79130;  load averages:  0.33,  0.22,  0.15                                                            up 85+19:36:44  13:05:01
38 processes:  1 running, 37 sleeping
CPU 0:  0.0% user,  0.0% nice,  0.0% system, 54.3% interrupt, 45.7% idle
CPU 1:  0.0% user,  0.0% nice,  1.1% system,  0.0% interrupt, 98.9% idle
Mem: 84M Active, 32M Inact, 281M Wired, 1336K Cache, 91M Buf, 3524M Free