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| Christian Ehrhardt (paelzer) wrote Re: Consider removing irqbalance from default install on desktop images | #5 |
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# Integration and maintenance
Despite some saying it is for the past only, it is regularly updated
and has multiple releases per year throughout all the time [4]. Those
updates flow well into Debian and Ubuntu - so it is not a classic "old
and outdated" case. And while not much changes in those updates, it means
it still learns like about thermal events in 1.9.1 or about isolcpus in 1.0.9.
I'm not saying it is super modern doing it all, but it gets updates.
Currently this is seeded in ubuntu-standard [1], which is what makes it
default installed everywhere. But it is intentionally only a recommends,
so the set of people that want to remove it can do so.
It was added a long time ago [3] back when multi-core was a rare thing
at least for Desktop systems. This was based on a discussion [5] and was
related to the kernel [6] actively delegating this to userspace. Debian
did a similar change a bit later [17] for the same reasons.
But again this was the time of single-core being common.
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