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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
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On Tue, 20 May 2008 18:14:58 -0700
Max Krasnyanskiy <maxk@qualcomm.co
> 

> For the IRQs specifically all I need is to be able to tell the kernel
> to not route IRQs to certain CPUs. That's mostly works already via 
> /proc/irq/N/smp_affinity, the problem is dynamically allocated irqs
> because /proc/irq/N directory does not exist until those IRQs are
> allocated/enabled.
\\

why don't you tell irqbalance instead? it'll make sure the irq stays
out of the wind...