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From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To:     Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched/cputime: Make IRQ time accounting configurable at
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On Thu, Jun 15, 2023 at 01:37:26PM -0700, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> Some producers of Android devices want IRQ time accounting enabled while
> others want IRQ time accounting disabled. Hence, make IRQ time accounting
> configurable at boot time.

Why would they want this disabled? IRQ time accounting avoids a number
of issues under high irq/softirq pressure.

Disabling this makes no sense.