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Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 11:20:32 -0700 (PDT)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
To: "Martin J. Bligh" <Martin.Bligh@us.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] NUMA-Q disable irqbalance
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On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> 
> I know, but you pays your money, you choose your breakage ;-)

Well, in this case, it is _you_ who end up having to choose your breakage.

> Forcing it on for every machine just because P4s are borked sounds wrong.

THAT IS NOT WHAT I SAID. Go back and read it. I said that since the P4
needs it, you don't have the choice of just ignoring it. Especially since
there are about a million more P4's out there than NUMA-Q machines.

It needs to be dynamic, not "disable it".

		Linus

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