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Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 12:22:07 -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:
> 
> OK, I was being unclear, that's not really what I meant. If I may rephrase:
> I don't like the performance hit it gives on P3 standard SMP machines (not
> NUMA-Q) though it does work on there too, and there's no easy way for 
> people to disable it.

Well, it makes performance _so_ much better on a P4 that it's not even 
funny. It's basically a "P4 is unusable with SMP" without it.

		Linus

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