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From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: CONFIG_IRQBALANCE for 64-bit x86 ?
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 16:24:32 +1100
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On Tuesday 20 November 2007 15:37, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 05:29:29AM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote:

> > Agreed. When userspace has something to do with the way IRQs are
> > delivered, it's going to smell as bad as micro-kernels...
>
> The next step to a micro-kernel would then be hardware drivers and file
> systems in userspace?  ;-)

We already have those. So the next step would be to pretend the
performance critical ones can be in userspace and remain competitive,
wouldn't it? ;)
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