Re: CONFIG_IRQBALANCE for 64-bit x86 ?

[H. Peter Anvin]

Nick Piggin wrote:
> On Tuesday 20 November 2007 15:37, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 05:29:29AM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote:
>
> > > Agreed. When userspace has something to do with the way IRQs are
> > > delivered, it's going to smell as bad as micro-kernels...
> > The next step to a micro-kernel would then be hardware drivers and file
> > systems in userspace?  ;-)
>
> We already have those. So the next step would be to pretend the
> performance critical ones can be in userspace and remain competitive,
> wouldn't it? ;)

Hey, I have a great idea... we can create a microkernel^W hypervisor and 
make a single process^W domain do all the I/O...

	-hpa
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