On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 08:31, Andrew Morton wrote:

> . The reworked ia32 balancing patch from Nitin Kamble is stable, and is
>   consistently showing benefit for heavy networking loads on large SMP
>   machines.  Even though everyone seems to agree that a userspace solution to
>   this is smarter, that's no reason to hold back on improving the
>   kernel-based solution so I shall be submitting that patch.

<shameless plug>
A version of a proposed userspace solution can be found at
http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/irqbalance/irqbalance-0.05.tar.gz
</shameless plug>

It's still relatively simple, but it has the buildingblocks for becoming
more advanced.

Greetings,
   Arjan van de Ven