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

[Yinghai Lu]

On 12/13/06, Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > 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.

Good question.

irqbalance could use set_affinity from boot cpu to final cpu.

YH
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