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Message-Id: <200711201624.32611.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 16:24:32 +1100
From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>, Mark Lord <lkml@....ca>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: CONFIG_IRQBALANCE for 64-bit x86 ?
On Tuesday 20 November 2007 15:37, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 05:29:29AM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> > Agreed. When userspace has something to do with the way IRQs are
> > delivered, it's going to smell as bad as micro-kernels...
>
> The next step to a micro-kernel would then be hardware drivers and file
> systems in userspace? ;-)
We already have those. So the next step would be to pretend the
performance critical ones can be in userspace and remain competitive,
wouldn't it? ;)
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