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From: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: CONFIG_IRQBALANCE for 64-bit x86 ?
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 11:10:26 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <474306F2.4060502@rtr.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071120080243.22725fb3@laptopd505.fenrus.org>

Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 10:52:48 -0500
> Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca> wro
>> All of which reminds me of perhaps *the* most important reason to keep
>> core functionality like "IRQ distribution" *inside* the kernel:
>>
>>    It has to pass peer review on this mailing list.
> 
> 
> that's a reason to keep it in the *source*, that's not the same as
..

Ack.  :)


> keeping it in ring0 pinning down memory all the time etc ;)
..

I belive it *must* remain pinned in memory to be effective,
because I also know it must run much more frequently than it
currently seems to run, in order to respond to quick changes
in IRQ load.

Eg. a heretofore idle device is suddenly now being used to copy
a DVD-sized file around.  It *must* respond quickly to changes
in load like this, or system latencies will suffer badly.

Cheers

  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-20 16:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-20  4:12 CONFIG_IRQBALANCE for 64-bit x86 ? Mark Lord
2007-11-20  4:15 ` Ismail Dönmez
2007-11-20  4:17 ` Nick Piggin
2007-11-20  4:29   ` Willy Tarreau
2007-11-20  4:37     ` Adrian Bunk
2007-11-20  5:24       ` Nick Piggin
2007-11-20  5:28         ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-11-20  5:37   ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-11-20  7:37     ` Nick Piggin
2007-11-20 14:47       ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-11-20 15:43         ` Nick Piggin
2007-11-20 19:07           ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-11-20 20:02             ` Mark Lord
2007-11-20 21:58               ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-11-20 23:17                 ` Mark Lord
2007-11-22  7:54             ` Nick Piggin
2007-11-23 13:09               ` Ingo Molnar
2007-11-25 10:03                 ` Nick Piggin
2007-11-20 15:47         ` Mark Lord
2007-11-20 15:52           ` Mark Lord
2007-11-20 16:02             ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-11-20 16:10               ` Mark Lord [this message]
2007-11-20 18:42               ` Mark Lord
2007-11-20 22:01         ` Ingo Molnar
2007-11-20 23:22           ` Mark Lord
2007-11-20 23:27             ` Ingo Molnar
2007-11-20 23:33               ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-11-20 23:47                 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-11-20 23:50                   ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-11-21  0:07                     ` Ingo Molnar
2007-11-21  0:20                       ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-11-21  0:36                         ` Ingo Molnar
2007-11-21  0:47                           ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-11-21  2:48                           ` Jeff Garzik
2007-11-21  2:59                             ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-11-20 23:28             ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-11-20 19:17   ` Andi Kleen
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2007-11-21  2:22 Walt H

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