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Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 23:01:10 +0100
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>, Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>,
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Subject: Re: CONFIG_IRQBALANCE for 64-bit x86 ?
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* Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote:

> kernel or kernel source? If there was a good place in the kernel 
> source I'd not be against moving irqbalance there. [...]

would this be a good case study to use klibc and start up irqbalanced 
automatically? I'd love it if we moved more of the 'system support' 
userspace into the kernel proper, to keep it under control. (and to 
simplify the compatibility and QA matrix)

	Ingo