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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@mwaikambo.name>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
	Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] per isr in_progress markers
Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2002 13:08:34 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D7CFFC2.283953@digeo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.LNX.4.44.0209092122030.4648-100000@localhost.localdomain

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:
> 
> > As an aside, i just had an idea for another way to improve interrupt
> > handling latency. Instead of walking through all the isrs in the chain,
> > we can have an isr flag wether it was the source of the irq, and if so
> > we stop right there and not walk through the other isrs. Obviously
> > taking into account that some devices are dumb and have no real way of
> > determining.
> 
> this is something i have a 0.5 MB patch for that touches a few hundred
> drivers. I can dust it off if there's demand - it will break almost
> nothing because i've done the hard work of adding the default 'no work was
> done' bit to every driver's IRQ handler.
> 

Does that code re-order the chain dynamically?

(My laptop shares an interrupt between the cardbus controller
and the cardbus ethernet controller.  The ethernet controller
generates 1000 interrupts per second.  The cardbus controller
generates 2 interrupts per day.  yenta_interrupt is really, really
slow).

  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-09-09 20:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-09-07 22:34 [PATCH][RFC] per isr in_progress markers Zwane Mwaikambo
2002-09-08  7:55 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-09-08  8:15   ` Ingo Molnar
2002-09-08 10:38     ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2002-09-08 13:31     ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2002-09-08 16:59       ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2002-09-08 22:01         ` Linus Torvalds
2002-09-08 23:03           ` Jeff Garzik
2002-09-09  6:49           ` bert hubert
2002-09-09 16:24             ` Linus Torvalds
2002-09-09 10:06           ` Ingo Molnar
2002-09-09 15:06             ` Linus Torvalds
2002-09-09 18:44               ` Ingo Molnar
2002-09-09 18:53                 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-09-09 19:37                   ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2002-09-09 19:23                     ` Ingo Molnar
2002-09-09 20:05                       ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2002-09-09 20:08                       ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2002-09-10 15:05                       ` David Woodhouse
2002-09-10 15:32                         ` Alan Cox
2002-09-10 22:37                       ` Gérard Roudier
2002-09-09 19:38                     ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2002-09-10 11:55                     ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2002-09-10 18:07                     ` Gunther Mayer
2002-09-10 18:38                       ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2002-09-10  7:46                   ` Rogier Wolff
2002-09-08 10:57   ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2002-09-09 20:40     ` Alan Cox
2002-09-09 20:48       ` Andre Hedrick
2002-09-10 17:47         ` Zwane Mwaikambo
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-09-09  9:49 zwane
2002-09-09 14:34 ` Robert Love
2002-09-09 18:23   ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2002-09-09 10:13 zwane

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