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From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@novell.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>, Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>,
	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: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 22:33:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040912203308.GA3049@dualathlon.random> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040912193542.GB28791@elte.hu>

On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 09:35:42PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> no. A 2 msec nonpreemptable delay is a 2 msec delay, irqs on or off
> alike.

irq-latency is an order of magnitude higher prio, than the scheduler
latency. above you only talk about scheduler latency.

with irq on and nested irqs enabled, the irq latency will have a chance
to be less than 2 msec.

take audio playback for example, with an huge buffering between
userspace and kernel and kernel submitting the next I/O via irqs, the
scheduler/userspace latency almost doesn't matter, only the
_irq_latency_ matters. 

hence I don't think not allowing nested irqs at all is a good idea and
it's a nice feature to support them.

ideally all irq handlers should be quick, but if some is not quick,
really it must enable irqs and allow other lowlatency interrupts to be
nested on top of it (like audio/video etc..).

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-09-12 20:32 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 [this message]
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
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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