On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 05:21, Kamble, Nitin A wrote:
> There are few issues we found with the user level daemon approach.
>
> Static binding compatibility: With the user level daemon, users can
> not
> use the /proc/irq/i/smp_affinity interface for the static binding of
> interrupts.
no they can just write/change the config file, with a gui if needed
>
> There is some information which is only available in the kernel today,
there's also some information only available to userspace today that the
userspace daemon can and does use.
> Also the future implementation might need more kernel data. This is
> important for interfaces such as NAPI, where interrupts handling changes
> on the fly.
ehm. almost. but napi isn't it ....
and the userspace side can easily have a system vendor provided file
that represents all kinds of very specific system info about the numa
structure..... working with every kernel out there.
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