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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: lkml - Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: arch/i386/Kconfig: CONFIG_IRQBALANCE Description
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 10:02:57 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1079996577.6595.19.camel@bach> (raw)

I came across this description:

config IRQBALANCE
 	bool "Enable kernel irq balancing"
	depends on SMP && X86_IO_APIC
	default y
	help
 	  The default yes will allow the kernel to do irq load balancing.
	  Saying no will keep the kernel from doing irq load balancing.

Holy shades of preempt!  Help messages should describe the advantages
and disadvantages of an option: little more disclosure would really help
here.

IMHO, if you're having trouble describing the pros and cons of an option
to a user of average technical ability (think sysadmin), it's not a good
config option.

Rusty.	
-- 
Anyone who quotes me in their signature is an idiot -- Rusty Russell


             reply	other threads:[~2004-03-22 23:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-22 23:02 Rusty Russell [this message]
2004-03-23 17:16 ` arch/i386/Kconfig: CONFIG_IRQBALANCE Description John Stoffel
2004-03-23 21:30   ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2004-03-24 14:04     ` John Stoffel
2004-03-25 19:07     ` Jamie Lokier
2004-03-26 10:39       ` Miquel van Smoorenburg

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