Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | RE: [PATCH][IO_APIC] 2.5.63bk7 irq_balance improvments / bug-fixes | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Date | 05 Mar 2003 19:26:52 +0100 |
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On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 05:21, Kamble, Nitin A wrote: > There are few issues we found with the user level daemon approach. > > Static binding compatibility: With the user level daemon, users can > not > use the /proc/irq/i/smp_affinity interface for the static binding of > interrupts.
no they can just write/change the config file, with a gui if needed
> > There is some information which is only available in the kernel today,
there's also some information only available to userspace today that the userspace daemon can and does use.
> Also the future implementation might need more kernel data. This is > important for interfaces such as NAPI, where interrupts handling changes > on the fly.
ehm. almost. but napi isn't it ....
and the userspace side can easily have a system vendor provided file that represents all kinds of very specific system info about the numa structure..... working with every kernel out there.
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