Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751065AbWLNEPP (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Dec 2006 23:15:15 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751158AbWLNEPP (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Dec 2006 23:15:15 -0500 Received: from ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com ([166.70.28.69]:45068 "EHLO ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751065AbWLNEPO (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Dec 2006 23:15:14 -0500 From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch] Add allowed_affinity to the irq_desc to make it possible to have restricted irqs References: <1166018020.27217.805.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20061213194332.GA29185@elte.hu> <45806137.4020403@linux.intel.com> Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 21:14:55 -0700 In-Reply-To: <45806137.4020403@linux.intel.com> (Arjan van de Ven's message of "Wed, 13 Dec 2006 21:23:19 +0100") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 811 Lines: 25 Arjan van de Ven writes: > Eric W. Biederman wrote: > >> There is still a question of how to handle the NUMA case but... >> > > the numa case is already handled; the needed info for that is exposed already > enough... at least for irqbalance What is the problem you are trying to solve? If it is just interrupts irqbalanced can't help with we can do that with a single bit. My basic problem with understanding what this patch is trying to solve is that I've seen some theoretical cases raised but I don't see the real world problem. Eric - 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/