From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932105AbWELOn0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 May 2006 10:43:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932107AbWELOn0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 May 2006 10:43:26 -0400 Received: from mx3.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.1.138]:62946 "EHLO mx3.mail.elte.hu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932105AbWELOnZ (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 May 2006 10:43:25 -0400 Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 16:43:05 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: Steven Rostedt Cc: Andrew Morton , markh@compro.net, LKML , dwalker@mvista.com, Thomas Gleixner Subject: Re: 3c59x vortex_timer rt hack (was: rt20 patch question) Message-ID: <20060512144305.GA4683@elte.hu> References: <44623157.9090105@compro.net> <20060512081628.GA26736@elte.hu> <20060512092159.GC18145@elte.hu> <20060512071645.6b59e0a2.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-ELTE-SpamScore: 0.1 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=0.1 required=5.9 tests=AWL autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.0.3 0.1 AWL AWL: From: address is in the auto white-list X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Steven Rostedt wrote: > Use this patch instead. It needs an irq disable. But, believe it or > not, on SMP this is actually better. If the irq is shared (as it is > in Mark's case), we don't stop the irq of other devices from being > handled on another CPU (unfortunately for Mark, he pinned all > interrupts to one CPU). > > Andrew, > > should this be changed in mainline too? > > -- Steve > > Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt yeah, would be nice to have this upstream too. It's not urgent so can go post-2.6.17. I've added it to the -rt tree. Ingo