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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 18:28:56 +1000

> Allright, so that's an out of tree userland thingy... (which may well
> work on ppc too I suppose). Definitely not installed by default by my
> distro so IRQs from the network cards on all x86's using ubuntu gutsy at
> least are spread to all CPUs :-)

But the thing does treat network interfaces differently from
other devices.

Arjan ran over to my table at kernel summit when I presented this
topic to the audience, to remind me of all of this and he should be
included in on any discussions about this topic. :-)

I've CC:'d him.