mark irqbalance not-recommended

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Tue Oct 23 2007 - 07:57:20 EST



Mark CONFIG_IRQBALANCE as not recommended any more. It eats too much
power, and better solutions are available in userspace.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxxx>

---
commit 2665f7971b5b97830b028308553a78a95c131988
tree e1782cceebfb5900373469c0043d113de88f861f
parent f5085f6ea1c5771708c44a4a42ee217e760ff4a0
author Pavel <pavel@xxxxxxxxxx> Tue, 23 Oct 2007 13:56:15 +0200
committer Pavel <pavel@xxxxxxxxxx> Tue, 23 Oct 2007 13:56:15 +0200

arch/i386/Kconfig | 9 ++++++---
1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/i386/Kconfig b/arch/i386/Kconfig
index eba2d88..10f3c38 100644
--- a/arch/i386/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/i386/Kconfig
@@ -779,10 +779,13 @@ config EFI
config IRQBALANCE
bool "Enable kernel irq balancing"
depends on SMP && X86_IO_APIC
- default y
+ default n
help
- The default yes will allow the kernel to do irq load balancing.
- Saying no will keep the kernel from doing irq load balancing.
+ Saying yes will allow the kernel to do irq load balancing;
+ but it generates too many CPU wakeups, eating power, and
+ is better done in userspace.
+
+ Say N.

# turning this on wastes a bunch of space.
# Summit needs it only when NUMA is on

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