Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 19 Nov 2007 21:28:22 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: CONFIG_IRQBALANCE for 64-bit x86 ? |
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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...
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