Re: userspace irq balancer

[Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>]

On Mon, 2003-05-19 at 15:11, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 03:07:36PM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> 
> > The only thing I'm concerned about is how it's going to be packaged. 
> > I'm envisioning explaining how to get the daemon out of its initrd
> > image, set it up and run it, especially before distros have it
> > integrated.  The stuff that's in the kernel now isn't horribly broken;
> > it's just not optimal for some relatively unusual cases.  
> 
> as for distros: RHL8 and later ship with it on the RH side
> (default enabled as of RHL9).

But, do you see the need for ripping out the current code?  For those of
us that are still running a slightly more primitive distro, it would be
nice to have some pretty effective default behavior, like what is in the
kernel now.

> As for where to start it: I really think an initscript is the logical
> place; there has been some discussion about doing it
> from the initramfs but I don't see real benifit from that; from starting
> init to running the initscripts isn't exactly THIS interrupt/performance
> heavy.

Yeah, I don't think we need it the second the kernel boots :)  Do you
really think this is a 2.6 showstopper?  Since it will require distro
cooperation anyway, and those are many months from releasing a 2.6
distro, do we really need it in place for 2.6.0?

-- 
Dave Hansen
haveblue@us.ibm.com