Re: [PATCH] NUMA-Q disable irqbalance

Martin J. Bligh
2002-08-13T17:24:56Z

> In the 2.4-ac tree it is a dynamic disable keyed off the mp 1.4 tables.
> That's how James Cleverdon (I think it was he) implemented the detection
> logic and mixed summit/sane-pc kernel build that seems to work well now

The trouble with that is that is it doesn't provide an interface for people to
disable it by hand for the many cases where constantly reprogramming
the IO-APIC reduces the performance of their workload.

M.