On Fri, 17 Nov 2017, Alan Altmark wrote:
> So what you're saying, Sebastian, is that (a) fine-grained control over
> what devices interrupt what CPUs is not in the Z architecture, (b) it's
> not in there for a good reason,  (c) providing such a capability would
> adversely affect overall system performance (which is why it's not in the
> architecture in the first place).

I've said (a) and gave my interpretation on why I don't think that this is
currently a huge issue.

> It might, however, be an interesting idea to make the ioctl()s in the
> device driver a no-op instead of not being present or generating its own
> errnos.  That way folks can turn the knob, feel better, but not see any
> change since "it doesn't get any better than this".

Nope. That would be false advertising and an API violation.

Sebastian

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