Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263580AbTETGZi (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 May 2003 02:25:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263592AbTETGZi (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 May 2003 02:25:38 -0400 Received: from e2.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.102]:51334 "EHLO e2.ny.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263580AbTETGZg (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 May 2003 02:25:36 -0400 Subject: Re: userspace irq balancer From: Dave Hansen To: "David S. Miller" Cc: "Martin J. Bligh" , William Lee Irwin III , arjanv@redhat.com, Badari Pulavarty , lkml , Gerrit Huizenga , John Stultz , James Cleverdon , Andrew Morton , Keith Mannthey In-Reply-To: <20030519.231319.91314647.davem@redhat.com> References: <20030520034622.GK8978@holomorphy.com> <1053407030.13207.253.camel@nighthawk> <88560000.1053409990@[10.10.2.4]> <20030519.231319.91314647.davem@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1053412583.13289.322.camel@nighthawk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.4 Date: 19 May 2003 23:36:23 -0700 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1300 Lines: 32 On Mon, 2003-05-19 at 23:13, David S. Miller wrote: > From: "Martin J. Bligh" > Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 22:53:11 -0700 > > I have no frigging idea why you'd want to tear something out that > works well already, and has a shitload of work put into it. > > It's pretty fundamentally broken for having had so much work > put into it. Show me something other than "SpecWEB run for IBM > ran faster" as a reason for keeping this code in there. Can you > even do this? I don't even think we can do that. That code was being integrated around the same time that our Specweb setup decided to go south on us and start physically frying itself. We never got a chance to run it. BTW, I don't think there are any other kernel developers running Specweb on 2.5 kernels. If there are, please speak up! Andrew Theurer posted some positive results here, which were quite marginal in the case with 1 nic. 4.7% with two. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=104212930819212&w=2 -- Dave Hansen haveblue@us.ibm.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/