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From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
To: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	"Alexandra N. Kossovsky" <Alexandra.Kossovsky@oktetlabs.ru>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: IRQ affinity notifiers vs RT
Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2013 18:44:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <524EF05E.4070402@linutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1380584663.2562.27.camel@bwh-desktop.uk.level5networks.com>

On 10/01/2013 01:44 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> Right, but it looks quite strange to have this thread just for a
> (probably) quite rare event.  Maybe some day someone will work out how
> to make Octeon's IRQ management less unusual and then you can use the
> simpler approach for RT...

We have three threads for some rare events by now if I count correctly.
That is
- mce check on x86 (mce_notify_helper_thread)
- this one
- clock_was_set_delayed() (pending)

So right now I am thinking about a workqueue for rare events because if
I keep doing this we end up with a bunch useless tasks for something
that might never occur.

> Ben.

Sebastian

      reply	other threads:[~2013-10-04 16:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-24 23:31 IRQ affinity notifiers vs RT Ben Hutchings
2013-08-30 21:29 ` Ben Hutchings
2013-09-23 12:58   ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2013-09-30 23:44     ` Ben Hutchings
2013-10-04 16:44       ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior [this message]

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