Re: [patch] Add allowed_affinity to the irq_desc to make it possible to have restricted irqs

From: Eric W. Biederman
Date: Wed Dec 13 2006 - 23:15:43 EST


Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
>> There is still a question of how to handle the NUMA case but...
>>
>
> the numa case is already handled; the needed info for that is exposed already
> enough... at least for irqbalance

What is the problem you are trying to solve?

If it is just interrupts irqbalanced can't help with we can do that
with a single bit.

My basic problem with understanding what this patch is trying to
solve is that I've seen some theoretical cases raised but I don't see
the real world problem.

Eric
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