linux-kernel - Re: dynamically use the irqbalance

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Message-ID: <46E5EAA1.3030302@nj.cpsecure.com>
Date:	Tue, 11 Sep 2007 09:08:49 +0800
From:	Dong_Wei <Dong_Wei@...cpsecure.com>
To:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: dynamically use the irqbalance




> On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 09:59:57 +0800
> Dong_Wei <Dong_Wei@...cpsecure.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi, all.
>>    I want to dynamically use irqbalance on X86 processor. My design
>> is like the following:
>>    1) if we boot kernel with "noirqbalance", then irqbalance is
>> always disabled.
>>    2) if we boot kernel without "noirqbalance", we can enable/disable 
>> irqbalance in runtime.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> kernel level irqbalance is not the right thing though (afaik it's in
> feature-deprecation-schedule); please consider using the userland
> irqbalancer instead (www.irqbalance.org). That also makes it entirely
> easy to do what you want; since it's a daemon, starting and stopping it
> follows standard Linux practice.

OK, I see. Maybe it's safe for me to run irqbalance using the userland.
Thanks a lot Arjan:)

> Greetings,
>     Arjan van de Ven



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