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SubjectRe: irqbalance considered obsolete by powertop
On Mon, 8 Oct 2007 09:25:55 +0200
Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> Powertop tells me that irqbalance is obsolete/burns too much power,
> while it is default Y and its help test does not provide any clues:

it is obsoleted.. (by the userspace balancer)
>
> Enable kernel irq balancing (IRQBALANCE) [Y/n/?] (NEW) ?
>
> The default yes will allow the kernel to do irq load balancing.
> Saying no will keep the kernel from doing irq load balancing.
>
> ...should the help text be updated?

that and the feature should probably be put in feature-removal
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