irqbalance look like an enteprise feature, lots of procs and multipath storages ... same thing for microcode update, this things maybe is useful for hard stressed servers but for us if our processor is just working then keep it happy and don't stress it more with unexpected fancy microcode patches ... and microcode blobs to be useful needs an external and automatic download/updating mechanism, something like a cronjob to check for new microcodes and this look like an enterprise server setup again ...
so, if you need an enterprise ready sabayon spin why to not just make one? Use Molecule to create your own spin<https://forum.sabayon.org/viewtopic.php?f=87&t=24895> with irqbalance + microcode + ldap + kerberos = centralized mass deployment and user rights management ? here if you can find something like Active Directory in linux world you will spin for free something that is sell for many $$$ even in linux world! this is why redhat and suselinux can make money selling free software as enterprise linux packages! ======================================= linux is free, but needed expertise to use this little beast is a personal, time consuming, continuous accumulation of knowledge and wasted time can not be rolled back no matter how much money you have selling free software can not bring to you too much money, but USING free software you can make a lot of money like Google ... or IBM your little help to free software development does not bring to you any money but can help you use it more efficiently, so you can make more money ... meanwhile, other users of that little free software program, using your contribution can make more money! nobody loses anything, all those who know how to use a free software program, in continuous evolution, wins registered linux user #352479 2011/9/17 Lorenzo Cogotti <[email protected]> > As far as I know the main benefits are fixes in the CPU microcode, as > basically the service will update the CPU microcode with more recent > versions, if necessary. > I don't know if this could bring also some performance improvements or > better powersaving. I doubt that the kernel already handles this, since > the microcode data is shipped by Intel or AMD themselves. > As far as I understand from the AMD documentation, the microcode update > is performed by the microcode module and I don't recall it being running > in any AMD installation, so I would exclude that the microcode update is > automatically handled by the kernel. > As far as I can tell from the services files and lsmod output, that > module is also needed for microcode_ctl, and it wasn't running before I > activated that service (actually, if there is no change in > the /etc/conf.d/microcode_ctl file, that module will be unloaded as soon > as the first microcode update is performed). > > I would add it to the boot rulevel since this operation should be > performed early in the boot sequence, but I don't think that it would > hurt putting it in the default runlevel. > > Also, usually any Linux distribution (like OpenSuSE, for example) > usually has it active by default. > > On a separate note, another related service that could be useful is: > /etc/init.d/irqbalance > and usually that service is enabled by default on other distributions > too. > Of course I don't mean that just because other distros do enable it, we > should too :) > > Il giorno sab, 17/09/2011 alle 15.10 +0200, Fabio Erculiani ha scritto: > > I've been always resilient to the addition of new boot services. > > > > What are the benefits of having microcode updates? Just CPU bug fixes? > > I never felt the need of updating the microcode of my CPU actually. > > Isn't it something that the kernel already takes care of? > > > > -- > Lorenzo Cogotti > > >
