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* irqbalance considered obsolete by powertop
@ 2007-10-08  7:25 Pavel Machek
  2007-10-08 14:17 ` Arjan van de Ven
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Pavel Machek @ 2007-10-08  7:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Arjan van de Ven, kernel list

Hi!

Powertop tells me that irqbalance is obsolete/burns too much power,
while it is default Y and its help test does not provide any clues:

Enable kernel irq balancing (IRQBALANCE) [Y/n/?] (NEW) ?

The default yes will allow the kernel to do irq load balancing.
Saying no will keep the kernel from doing irq load balancing.

...should the help text be updated?
								Pavel
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* Re: irqbalance considered obsolete by powertop
  2007-10-08  7:25 irqbalance considered obsolete by powertop Pavel Machek
@ 2007-10-08 14:17 ` Arjan van de Ven
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Arjan van de Ven @ 2007-10-08 14:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Pavel Machek; +Cc: kernel list

On Mon, 8 Oct 2007 09:25:55 +0200
Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> Powertop tells me that irqbalance is obsolete/burns too much power,
> while it is default Y and its help test does not provide any clues:

it is obsoleted.. (by the userspace balancer)
> 
> Enable kernel irq balancing (IRQBALANCE) [Y/n/?] (NEW) ?
> 
> The default yes will allow the kernel to do irq load balancing.
> Saying no will keep the kernel from doing irq load balancing.
> 
> ...should the help text be updated?

that and the feature should probably be put in feature-removal

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