From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: jesse.brandeburg@gmail.com
Cc: ebiederm@xmission.com, ddaney@caviumnetworks.com,
cfriesen@nortel.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: Irq architecture for multi-core network driver.
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:19:28 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091023.201928.12664693.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4807377b0910231028g60b479cfycdbf3f4e25384c58@mail.gmail.com>
From: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:28:10 -0700
> Yes, I know Arjan and others will say you should always run
> irqbalance, but some people don't and some distros don't ship it
> enabled by default (or their version doesn't work for one reason or
> another) The question is should the kernel work better by default
> *without* irqbalance loaded, or does it not matter?
I think requiring irqbalanced for optimal behavior is more
than reasonable.
And since we explicitly took that policy logic out of the
kernel it makes absolutely no sense to put it back there.
It's policy, and policy is (largely) userspace.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-24 3:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-22 21:40 Irq architecture for multi-core network driver David Daney
2009-10-22 22:05 ` Chris Friesen
2009-10-22 22:24 ` David Daney
2009-10-23 7:59 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-10-23 17:28 ` Jesse Brandeburg
2009-10-23 23:22 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-10-24 13:26 ` David Miller
2009-10-24 3:19 ` David Miller [this message]
2009-10-24 13:23 ` David Miller
2009-12-16 22:08 ` Chetan Loke
2009-12-16 22:30 ` David Daney
2009-12-16 23:00 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-12-16 23:26 ` David Daney
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