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Subject: Re: [patch -mm 26/28] x86-64 block irq balancing for timer
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
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On Sun, 2007-06-24 at 02:04 +0200, Andreas Kleen wrote:
> Am Sat 23 Jun 2007 11:27:20 PM CEST schrieb Arjan van de Ven  
> <arjan@infradead.org>:
> 
> > On Sat, 2007-06-23 at 13:32 +0000, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> >> plain text document attachment
> >> (x86-64-clockevents-irq-balancing.patch)
> >> From: Venki Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
> >>
> >> Disable irq balancing on IRQ0.
> >
> >
> > this patch is missing some rationale....
> 
> Several SIS chipsets lock up when you try to change affinity of IRQ #0

so we're protecting root against himself.. fair enough.
probably wants a comment in the code 
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