Re: [PATCH] NUMA-Q disable irqbalance

Alan Cox
2002-08-13T17:37:06Z

On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 18:24, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> > 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.

I have zero problems with also being able to manually disable it