x86: remove irqbalance in kernel for 32 bit

This has been deprecated for years, the user space irqbalanced utility works better with numa, has configurable policies, etc... Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmai.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
git-mirror · Oct 16, 2008 · 8b8e8c1 · 8b8e8c1
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diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -1254,14 +1254,6 @@ config EFI
   	resultant kernel should continue to boot on existing non-EFI
   	platforms.
 
-config IRQBALANCE
-	def_bool y
-	prompt "Enable kernel irq balancing"
-	depends on X86_32 && SMP && X86_IO_APIC
-	help
-	  The default yes will allow the kernel to do irq load balancing.
-	  Saying no will keep the kernel from doing irq load balancing.
-
 config SECCOMP
 	def_bool y
 	prompt "Enable seccomp to safely compute untrusted bytecode"

diff --git a/arch/x86/configs/i386_defconfig b/arch/x86/configs/i386_defconfig
@@ -287,7 +287,6 @@ CONFIG_MTRR=y
 # CONFIG_MTRR_SANITIZER is not set
 CONFIG_X86_PAT=y
 CONFIG_EFI=y
-# CONFIG_IRQBALANCE is not set
 CONFIG_SECCOMP=y
 # CONFIG_HZ_100 is not set
 # CONFIG_HZ_250 is not set