From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>,
Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@novell.com>,
Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>,
Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>,
"Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] Separate IRQ-stacks from 4K-stacks option
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 16:39:49 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1095280788.2406.171.camel@krustophenia.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040915200018.GA17773@elte.hu>
On Wed, 2004-09-15 at 16:00, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> wrote:
>
> > Okay, I'll be the one to ask... what overload of the IPL acronym are
> > you using here? I asked google and several jargon files, and they all
> > say that IPL (initial program load) is IBMspeak for cold boot. Somehow
> > I don't think that's what you mean here.
>
> i understood it as Interrupt Privilege Levels. The notion of having some
> sort of scalar 'limit' - all interrupts with a higher priority than that
> will execute, all interrupts with lower priority will block. This is a
> fundamentally dodgy concept because in reality interrupt sources are
> independent entities so the natural description for of them is a bitmask
> (or an array, or whatever), not a level.
>
Yeah, I was talking about interrupt priority levels. I have to admit my
only exposure to them is a book on Solaris, they are intended as a
mechanism to deal with priority inversions. Sounds like a neat trick on
paper but they don't seem to be applicable here.
Lee
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-15 20:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 73+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-09 23:25 [PATCH 1/3] Separate IRQ-stacks from 4K-stacks option Chris Wedgwood
2004-09-09 23:55 ` Brian Gerst
2004-09-09 23:59 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-09-10 6:40 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-09-10 6:45 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-09-10 6:52 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-09-10 7:15 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-09-10 7:21 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-09-10 7:23 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-09-10 7:35 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-09-10 9:12 ` Alan Cox
2004-09-10 9:14 ` Alan Cox
2004-09-10 10:27 ` Russell King
2004-09-10 14:30 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-09-10 15:06 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-09-10 15:07 ` Hugh Dickins
2004-09-10 15:12 ` Alan Cox
2004-09-10 15:15 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-09-10 15:28 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-10 15:09 ` Alan Cox
2004-09-10 15:34 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-09-12 14:17 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-12 15:03 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-09-12 15:45 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-09-12 16:00 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-10-20 16:27 ` Lee Revell
2004-10-21 15:18 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-09-12 19:18 ` Lee Revell
2004-09-12 19:25 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-09-12 19:35 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-09-12 19:40 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-09-12 19:44 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-09-12 20:33 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-12 21:36 ` Lee Revell
2004-09-12 22:07 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-12 22:25 ` Lee Revell
2004-09-13 6:16 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-09-13 7:27 ` Lee Revell
2004-09-15 19:43 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-09-15 19:51 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-15 20:00 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-09-15 20:39 ` Lee Revell [this message]
2004-10-20 17:50 ` Timothy Miller
2004-09-13 7:32 ` Jens Axboe
2004-09-13 10:31 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-13 10:34 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-09-13 12:30 ` Jens Axboe
2004-10-20 17:46 ` Timothy Miller
2004-09-13 10:51 ` Alan Cox
2004-09-13 20:26 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-09-14 5:20 ` Lee Revell
2004-10-20 15:46 ` Timothy Miller
2004-10-20 15:35 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-10-20 16:39 ` Lee Revell
2004-10-20 16:50 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-10-20 16:55 ` Lee Revell
2004-10-20 17:08 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-10-20 17:15 ` Lee Revell
2004-10-20 17:34 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-10-20 17:58 ` Timothy Miller
2004-10-20 17:55 ` Lee Revell
2004-10-20 18:25 ` Timothy Miller
2004-10-20 18:28 ` Lee Revell
2004-10-20 18:51 ` Alan Cox
2004-10-20 23:19 ` Lee Revell
2004-09-10 15:16 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-10-20 15:43 ` Timothy Miller
2004-10-20 15:35 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-09-10 15:58 ` Alexander E. Patrakov
2004-09-10 16:19 ` Nathan Bryant
2004-09-10 17:54 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-09-10 17:54 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-09-10 9:27 ` Alan Cox
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