From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262358AbTEUXbJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 May 2003 19:31:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262363AbTEUXbI (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 May 2003 19:31:08 -0400 Received: from pizda.ninka.net ([216.101.162.242]:3545 "EHLO pizda.ninka.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262358AbTEUXbI (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 May 2003 19:31:08 -0400 Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 16:42:26 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20030521.164226.23023899.davem@redhat.com> To: kmannth@us.ibm.com Cc: zwane@linuxpower.ca, mbligh@aracnet.com, habanero@us.ibm.com, haveblue@us.ibm.com, wli@holomorphy.com, arjanv@redhat.com, pbadari@us.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, gh@us.ibm.com, johnstul@us.ltcfwd.linux.ibm, jamesclv@us.ibm.com, akpm@digeo.com Subject: Re: userspace irq balancerB From: "David S. Miller" In-Reply-To: <1053560371.19335.4725.camel@dyn9-47-17-180.beaverton.ibm.com> References: <1053541725.16886.4711.camel@dyn9-47-17-180.beaverton.ibm.com> <1053560371.19335.4725.camel@dyn9-47-17-180.beaverton.ibm.com> X-FalunGong: Information control. X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Keith Mannthey Date: 21 May 2003 16:39:29 -0700 For example a user would have to know that cpus 1,2,9,10 were on the same cluster not (1,2,3,4) as you would expect. Nothing prevents us from exporting these mappings to userspace. Just like we can export a "possible mask" for each interrupt source.