Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 14 Aug 2002 12:10:34 +0200 (CEST) | From | Jos Hulzink <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] NUMA-Q disable irqbalance |
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On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> There are tons of reasons to run the same kernel on a multitude of > machines, even ignoring the issue of things like installers etc. > > We had this CONFIG_xxxx disease when it came to SSE, we had it when it > came to TSC, etc. And in every case it ended up being bad, simply because > it's not the right interface for _users_.
True, but the nice thing about the linux kernel is that every little detail can be modified as you like. I think it is very important to answer the question what skills a person that wants to compile a kernel needs. If you want to lower the threshold, this sure is an config option that shouldn't be there.
Maybe the config system should provide an expert-mode to tweak stuff like this, and enable / disable the irq balancing by default according to the processor type selected.
Jos
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