Comment 8 for bug 1833322

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Christian Ehrhardt  (paelzer) wrote (last edit ): Re: Consider removing irqbalance from default install on desktop images

I subscribed a few people directly to get their input.

@Steve
I've subscribed you after trying to find, refer and summarize all of the past to allow you and anyone else to read into this in one go. I think I'll need your input as Architect and as participant of these discussions right from when they started 14 years ago.

@Phil/@John
Some past discussions, especially the backpedaling of Debian referred to virtual environments and/or large cloud providers. Is irqbalance anything you got asked to disable (or keep) for their environment?
No need to share names, but reasoning or data points would be helpful :-)

@Dimitri
Is there a more clear "this is what userspace should do in regard to this in 2024" form the kernel? I couldn#t find it, but maybe you know or know who'd know ...

@Sebastien
Since most problems reported have been around Desktops (to be fair, that could be an coincidence because that is where people do more experiments and have more diverse special cases). But I think it is fair to ask you if requests or discussion like the above have come up towards Desktop that are worth to refer here?

Maybe one of you has more details that help to make the decision more clear and easy.
Or a gut feeling that is even stronger than mine, strong enough even to pick one of the options?