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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
Cc: philippe.gramoulle@mmania.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.5.67-mm4 & IRQ balancing
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 13:15:32 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030423131532.3ad2e3eb.akpm@digeo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1030423153128.4451E-100000@gatekeeper.tmr.com>

Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> wrote:
>
> > - Can build irqbalanced into the intial initramfs image as part of kernel
> >   build. (lacking klibc, we would need to statically link against glibc)
> 
> Why, please? Unless you postulate that (a) the default kernel balance
> would be so bad the machine wouldn't boot, or (b) that the interface would
> be done only once at boot time, there's no reason for the user program to
> be in initramfs, is there? Let the distribution put it where other system
> things like ifconfig live.

Mainly as an exercise in using the initramfs infrastructure for something
real.  It's doubtful that irqbalanced would be started that way in real life.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-04-23 20:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-04-18 23:58 2.5.67-mm4 & IRQ balancing Philippe Gramoullé
2003-04-19  0:51 ` Andrew Morton
2003-04-19 13:39   ` Philippe Gramoullé
2003-04-19 20:38     ` Andrew Morton
2003-04-22 10:06       ` Philippe Gramoullé
2003-04-22 10:32         ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-04-23 19:41       ` Bill Davidsen
2003-04-23 20:13         ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-04-24 21:32           ` Bill Davidsen
2003-04-25  9:03             ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-04-23 20:15         ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2003-04-19  1:03 Nakajima, Jun
2003-04-19 12:21 Chuck Ebbert
2003-04-19 13:14 ` Philippe Gramoullé

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