Re: [PATCH] NUMA-Q disable irqbalance

Linus Torvalds
2002-08-13T19:15:53Z

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