irqbalance superfluous

[Istimsak Abdulbasir]

On Apr 9, 2015 8:20 AM, "Daniel J Blueman" <daniel at quora.org> wrote:
>
> On 9 April 2015 at 20:14, Istimsak Abdulbasir <saqman2060 at gmail.com>
wrote:
> > On Apr 9, 2015 8:09 AM, "Daniel J Blueman" <daniel at quora.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> Checked with Vivid beta on Intel i5 hardware, and it seems interrupt
> >> distribution doesn't change when I boot with irqbalance running [1],
> >> or after purging it and rebooting [2].
> >>
> >> Finally, it can't second guess MSI interrupt setup better than the
> >> APIC driver and adds a unnecessary layer of 'intelligence'. I don't
> >> see any case common enough to warrant deploying it by default.
>
> > What is the irqbalance and what was the reason for using it?
>
> Please bottom-post only.
>
> irqbalance was of use when the kernel didn't optimally program
> interrupt distribution for various devices (SATA, sound, GPU etc),
> which wasn't the case for some years.

Does this mean there wasn't a separate IRQ for these devices?
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