On Mon, 21 Apr 2008, Rick Jones wrote:
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> Bodo Eggert wrote:
> > On Mon, 21 Apr 2008, Rick Jones wrote:

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> > > Be it kernel or user space, for consistent benchmark results it needs to
> > > be
> > > able to be turned-off without turning the code.  That leaves me in
> > > agreement
> > > with Stephen that if it must exist, the user space one would be
> > > preferable.
> > > It can be easily terminated with extreme prejudice.
> > 
> > 
> > I agree that having a full-featured userspace balancer daemon with lots of
> > intelligence will be theoretically better, but if you can have a simple
> > daemon doing OK on many machines for less than the userspace daemon's
> > kernel stack, why not?
> 
> Perhaps my judgement is too colored by benchmark(et)ing, and desires to have
> repeatable results on things like neperf, but I very much like to know where
> my interrupts are going and don't like them moving around. That is why I am
> not particularly fond of either flavor of irq balancing.
> 
> That being the case, whatever is out there aught to be able to be disabled on
> a running system without having to roll bits or reboot.

Adding a "module" parameter to disable it should be cheap, isn't it?
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