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From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
To: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@linuxpower.ca>
Cc: "Andrew Morton" <akpm@digeo.com>,
	"Philippe Gramoullé" <philippe.gramoulle@mmania.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.5.67-mm4 & IRQ balancing
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 17:32:44 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1030424173025.11734A-100000@gatekeeper.tmr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.50.0304231610030.27414-100000@montezuma.mastecende.com>

On Wed, 23 Apr 2003, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:

> On Wed, 23 Apr 2003, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> 
> > I like the idea of being able to tune the int processing with a user
> > program. I don't think I share your vision of making a user program part
> 
> You've actually been able to do this with echo(1) for a while, just not 
> 'automagically'
> 
> > of the kernel to allow diddling an interface which might be better getting
> > right the first time, and protecting against "features" being added.
> > Hopefully it will be minimalist, and may well benefit from a totally
> > different user program for various machine types.
> 
> The smp interrupt affinity interface hasn't changed for a while (since 
> inception?), we're only now deciding on where to put the autotune aspect 
> of it.

So the usermode program would not have to be part of kernel source as
previously stated, if I read that right, it just has to conform to a
standard. And everybody can write one and try to measure the difference it
makes.

-- 
bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.


  reply	other threads:[~2003-04-24 21:27 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 [this message]
2003-04-25  9:03             ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-04-23 20:15         ` Andrew Morton
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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