mark irqbalance not-recommended

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To: kernel list <linux-kernel@...>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...>, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...>
Date: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 - 7:57 am

Mark CONFIG_IRQBALANCE as not recommended any more. It eats too much
power, and better solutions are available in userspace.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>

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commit 2665f7971b5b97830b028308553a78a95c131988
tree e1782cceebfb5900373469c0043d113de88f861f
parent f5085f6ea1c5771708c44a4a42ee217e760ff4a0
author Pavel <pavel@amd.ucw.cz> Tue, 23 Oct 2007 13:56:15 +0200
committer Pavel <pavel@amd.ucw.cz> Tue, 23 Oct 2007 13:56:15 +0200

 arch/i386/Kconfig |    9 ++++++---
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/i386/Kconfig b/arch/i386/Kconfig
index eba2d88..10f3c38 100644
--- a/arch/i386/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/i386/Kconfig
@@ -779,10 +779,13 @@ config EFI
 config IRQBALANCE
  	bool "Enable kernel irq balancing"
 	depends on SMP && X86_IO_APIC
-	default y
+	default n
 	help
- 	  The default yes will allow the kernel to do irq load balancing.
-	  Saying no will keep the kernel from doing irq load balancing.
+ 	  Saying yes will allow the kernel to do irq load balancing;
+	  but it generates too many CPU wakeups, eating power, and
+	  is better done in userspace.
+
+	  Say N.
 
 # turning this on wastes a bunch of space.
 # Summit needs it only when NUMA is on

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Messages in current thread:
mark irqbalance not-recommended, Pavel Machek, (Tue Oct 23, 7:57 am)
Re: mark irqbalance not-recommended, Jeff Garzik, (Tue Oct 23, 4:42 pm)
Re: mark irqbalance not-recommended, Arjan van de Ven, (Tue Oct 23, 12:00 pm)
Re: mark irqbalance not-recommended, Adrian Bunk, (Tue Oct 23, 9:05 am)