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SubjectRe: CONFIG_IRQBALANCE for 64-bit x86 ?
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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