Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756727AbXKTFYv (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Nov 2007 00:24:51 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752611AbXKTFYn (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Nov 2007 00:24:43 -0500 Received: from smtp103.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([209.191.85.213]:38282 "HELO smtp103.mail.mud.yahoo.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1752113AbXKTFYm (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Nov 2007 00:24:42 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com.au; h=Received:X-YMail-OSG:From:To:Subject:Date:User-Agent:Cc:References:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Disposition:Message-Id; b=vDyjxxFmxhUUDTpdJ73rx1vZczNFc5nZYg8DBYePwji8eZlDwEqHDllTmS0j82gBlJHNfZFPdsGYgCT9vLiOTkaXxzvPTotAmAruMAHpJzPfrdlCnZreYTXXdVT/iWttPiGmDyJIwggbRd9hoZORaynl828CrOER5R3MSpFGLBs= ; X-YMail-OSG: .paDt58VM1k4gASYw6tf4INExQsl4PBZmrlJ9OnDTd4.D4hrn2e0d7lY7RSrkJ9Qn8lruaC7Rw-- From: Nick Piggin To: Adrian Bunk Subject: Re: CONFIG_IRQBALANCE for 64-bit x86 ? Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 16:24:32 +1100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 Cc: Willy Tarreau , Mark Lord , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , Ingo Molnar , Linux Kernel References: <47425EA5.7000607@rtr.ca> <20071120042929.GD15227@1wt.eu> <20071120043742.GE6164@stusta.de> In-Reply-To: <20071120043742.GE6164@stusta.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200711201624.32611.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 751 Lines: 17 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? ;) - 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/