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Subject: Re: [PATCH] 1/2 Add exposure of the irq delivery mask on x86
From: Keith Mannthey <kmannth@us.ibm.com>
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>>This exposes a delivery mask in /proc/<irq>/mask for the userspace irq
>>balancer to use in its calculations.

  What exactly are you trying to expose? These patches look to just show
what cpus are on-line.  Wouldn't this just be the cpu_online_map in all
cases?  I guess I am a little confuses by what a "delivery mask" is.

Thanks,  
  Keith  


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