linux-kernel - Re: CONFIG_IRQBALANCE for 64-bit x86 ?

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Message-ID: <47436ECD.3050004@zytor.com>
Date:	Tue, 20 Nov 2007 15:33:33 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
CC:	Mark Lord <lkml@....ca>, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: CONFIG_IRQBALANCE for 64-bit x86 ?

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Mark Lord <lkml@....ca> wrote:
> 
>> Perhaps, but this also violates the principle that the kernel should 
>> just *work* with sensible defaults.  I don't use an initrd, or an 
>> initramfs, and have no intention of ever doing so.
> 
> nor do i - i was under the impression that klibc was able to work out of 
> a bzImage too? Am i wrong?
> 

Nope.  It runs inside an initramfs, of course; that initramfs is linked 
into the kernel binary.

	-hpa
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