Re: userspace irq balancer

Martin J. Bligh (mbligh@aracnet.com)
Wed, 21 May 2003 07:58:11 -0700


> There is zero reason why IRQ balancing should be in any way
> different. It's POLICY, and POLICY == USERSPACE. It is the end
> of the argument.

Despite whatever political wrangling there is between userspace and
kernelspace implementations (and some very valid points about other
arches), there is still a dearth of testing, as far as I can see.

I can't see anything wrong with making it a config option for now,
and letting people choose what they want to do, until we have more
information as to which performs better under a variety of workloads.
That seems the most pragmatic way forward.

M.

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