Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 08:02:43 -0800
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
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       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
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Subject: Re: CONFIG_IRQBALANCE for 64-bit x86 ?
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On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 10:52:48 -0500
Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca> wro
> 
> All of which reminds me of perhaps *the* most important reason to keep
> core functionality like "IRQ distribution" *inside* the kernel:
> 
>    It has to pass peer review on this mailing list.


that's a reason to keep it in the *source*, that's not the same as
keeping it in ring0 pinning down memory all the time etc ;)

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