From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754606AbXJHOTB (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Oct 2007 10:19:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752435AbXJHOSt (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Oct 2007 10:18:49 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:58487 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752249AbXJHOSs (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Oct 2007 10:18:48 -0400 Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 07:17:40 -0700 From: Arjan van de Ven To: Pavel Machek Cc: kernel list Subject: Re: irqbalance considered obsolete by powertop Message-ID: <20071008071740.4987b5f1@laptopd505.fenrus.org> In-Reply-To: <20071008072555.GA6316@elf.ucw.cz> References: <20071008072555.GA6316@elf.ucw.cz> Organization: Intel X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.0.1 (GTK+ 2.12.0; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 8 Oct 2007 09:25:55 +0200 Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > Powertop tells me that irqbalance is obsolete/burns too much power, > while it is default Y and its help test does not provide any clues: it is obsoleted.. (by the userspace balancer) > > Enable kernel irq balancing (IRQBALANCE) [Y/n/?] (NEW) ? > > The default yes will allow the kernel to do irq load balancing. > Saying no will keep the kernel from doing irq load balancing. > > ...should the help text be updated? that and the feature should probably be put in feature-removal