Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161519AbWHDVv6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Aug 2006 17:51:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161512AbWHDVv6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Aug 2006 17:51:58 -0400 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.187]:53462 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161505AbWHDVv5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Aug 2006 17:51:57 -0400 From: Bodo Eggert <7eggert@elstempel.de> Subject: Re: [RFC] irqbalance: Mark in-kernel irqbalance as obsolete, set to N by default To: Arjan van de Ven , Andrew Morton , Auke Kok , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jesse.brandeburg@intel.com, john.ronciak@intel.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org Reply-To: 7eggert@gmx.de Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2006 23:48:16 +0200 References: <6EJUl-4br-13@gated-at.bofh.it> <6FXVd-1Gl-11@gated-at.bofh.it> <6G9jL-1Yg-41@gated-at.bofh.it> User-Agent: KNode/0.7.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8Bit X-Troll: Tanz Message-Id: X-be10.7eggert.dyndns.org-MailScanner-Information: See www.mailscanner.info for information X-be10.7eggert.dyndns.org-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-be10.7eggert.dyndns.org-MailScanner-From: 7eggert@elstempel.de X-Provags-ID: kundenserver.de abuse@kundenserver.de login:9b3b2cc444a07783f194c895a09f1de9 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 900 Lines: 17 Arjan van de Ven wrote: > to some degree the in kernel balancer cannot really make the level of > decisions that a userspace balancer can make, at least not without making all > kernel developers vomit ;) If you make the drivers set a flag if they know their interrupts should remain mostly on one CPU, you can avoid the bad cases, and the rest you could gain from using more clever algorithms should be(*) usurally less than what parsing /proc/interrupts costs. *) as in: I guess -- Ich danke GMX daf?r, die Verwendung meiner Adressen mittels per SPF verbreiteten L?gen zu sabotieren. http://david.woodhou.se/why-not-spf.html - 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/