Re: dynamically use the irqbalance

[Dong_Wei <Dong_Wei@nj.cpsecure.com>]

> On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 09:59:57 +0800
> Dong_Wei <Dong_Wei@nj.cpsecure.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi, all.
> >    I want to dynamically use irqbalance on X86 processor. My design
> > is like the following:
> >    1) if we boot kernel with "noirqbalance", then irqbalance is
> > always disabled.
> >    2) if we boot kernel without "noirqbalance", we can enable/disable 
> > irqbalance in runtime.
>
> Hi,
>
> kernel level irqbalance is not the right thing though (afaik it's in
> feature-deprecation-schedule); please consider using the userland
> irqbalancer instead (www.irqbalance.org). That also makes it entirely
> easy to do what you want; since it's a daemon, starting and stopping it
> follows standard Linux practice.

OK, I see. Maybe it's safe for me to run irqbalance using the userland.
Thanks a lot Arjan:)

> Greetings,
>     Arjan van de Ven



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