From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] genirq: support multiple interrupt priorities
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 12:36:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070806103609.GA17495@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070806103027.GA4624@linux-sh.org>
* Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> wrote:
> This is a simple patch for adding trivial interrupt priority support.
>
> I've added a ->set_prio() to the irq_chip which is implemented
> effectively the same way as ->set_type(), it's an optional component
> for those that really care about it.
i have no fundamental objections but it would be nice to actually
prototype this by implementing real priority support in the hardware:
both the i8259A and the IO-APIC/local-apic has such IRQ prioritization
features.
> + * IRQF_PRIO_HIGH - Give IRQ a high priority
> + * IRQF_PRIO_LOW - Give IRQ a low priority
this should be a numeric scale. (Preferably in the 1-99 range (the
hardware can then do a lower-resolution thing out of it), so that we can
directly map this to IRQ threads and SCHED_FIFO priorities in -rt.)
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-06 10:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-06 10:30 [RFC][PATCH] genirq: support multiple interrupt priorities Paul Mundt
2007-08-06 10:36 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2007-08-06 10:46 ` Paul Mundt
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