From: Jos Hulzink <josh@stack.nl>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: "Martin J. Bligh" <Martin.Bligh@us.ibm.com>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Matt Dobson <colpatch@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] NUMA-Q disable irqbalance
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 12:10:34 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020814115944.Q22573-100000@toad.stack.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0208131320280.1260-100000@home.transmeta.com>
On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> There are tons of reasons to run the same kernel on a multitude of
> machines, even ignoring the issue of things like installers etc.
>
> We had this CONFIG_xxxx disease when it came to SSE, we had it when it
> came to TSC, etc. And in every case it ended up being bad, simply because
> it's not the right interface for _users_.
True, but the nice thing about the linux kernel is that every little
detail can be modified as you like. I think it is very important to answer
the question what skills a person that wants to compile a kernel needs. If
you want to lower the threshold, this sure is an config option that
shouldn't be there.
Maybe the config system should provide an expert-mode to tweak stuff like
this, and enable / disable the irq balancing by default according to the
processor type selected.
Jos
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-08-14 10:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-08-05 23:51 [PATCH] NUMA-Q disable irqbalance Martin J. Bligh
2002-08-13 16:13 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-08-13 16:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-08-13 16:57 ` Alan Cox
2002-08-13 17:24 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-08-13 17:38 ` Alan Cox
2002-08-13 17:14 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-08-13 17:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-08-13 18:02 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-08-13 18:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-08-13 18:58 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-08-13 19:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-08-13 20:04 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-08-13 20:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-08-14 5:52 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-08-14 10:10 ` Jos Hulzink [this message]
2002-08-14 11:12 ` David Lang
2002-08-13 20:22 ` Alan Cox
2002-08-13 20:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-08-13 20:34 ` Alan Cox
2002-08-13 20:42 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-08-13 21:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-08-13 22:29 ` Andrew Theurer
2002-08-13 23:30 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-08-14 21:16 ` James Cleverdon
2002-08-23 2:31 ` [PATCH] 2.5.31 Summit NUMA patch with dynamic IRQ balancing James Cleverdon
2002-08-20 0:49 ` [PATCH] NUMA-Q disable irqbalance Dave Hansen
2002-08-13 22:08 ` Rik van Riel
2002-08-13 22:14 ` Rik van Riel
2002-08-14 14:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-08-14 15:19 ` Rik van Riel
2002-08-24 12:19 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2002-08-27 1:23 ` James Cleverdon
2002-08-27 7:46 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
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