Comment 47 for bug 1833322

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote : Re: [Bug 1833322] Re: Consider removing irqbalance from default install on desktop images

Belated response, but just for the record, Paride's recounting of upstream's
position in the context of the Debian decision was definitive for me:

On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 11:47:56AM -0000, Paride Legovini wrote:
> Back in the day I asked upstream their take on irqbalance usefulness
> with newer kernels, here is their reply:

In effect what this says is that: irqbalance is still useful, but unless
the admin configures it, the policy it provides is not a discernable
improvement over the in-kernel default policy.

Therefore I think it is the right path forward to unseed this and let users
install it in situations where they want to configure it.