From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [RFC] killing the NR_IRQS arrays.
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 09:37:05 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1171665426.5644.99.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070216195256.GE2572@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
> > Rather than having the job of rewriting this code during 2.6, I'd much
> > prefer to get something sorted, even if it is ARM only before 2.6.
> >
> > I believe that there are some common problems with the existing API
> > which have been hinted at over the last few days, such as large
> > NR_IRQS. As such, I think it would be a good idea to try to thrash
> > this issue out and get something which everyone is happy with.
> >
> > Additionally, I've added Alan's "reserve then hook" idea to the API;
> > I seem to remember there is a case in IDE which needs something like
> > this.
You might want to have a look at the powerpc API with it's remaping
capabilities. It's very nice for handling multiple domain spaces. It
might be of some use for you.
I like your proposed API, I think that's where we want to go in the long
run.
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-16 22:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-16 12:10 [RFC] killing the NR_IRQS arrays Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-16 12:16 ` Andi Kleen
2007-02-16 15:35 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-16 12:41 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-02-16 15:23 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-16 15:49 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-16 22:33 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-18 21:24 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-02-19 0:25 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-27 20:29 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-28 0:41 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-02-28 7:20 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-28 8:09 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-28 13:28 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-28 12:24 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-02-28 13:02 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-02-28 13:53 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-03-01 10:47 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-16 18:07 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-02-16 19:01 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-16 19:06 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-02-16 19:45 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-02-16 19:52 ` Russell King
2007-02-16 20:43 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-02-16 20:59 ` Russell King
2007-02-16 22:37 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2007-02-17 1:37 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-02-17 4:00 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-17 9:06 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-17 21:15 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-18 6:30 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-18 20:01 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-17 9:34 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-17 21:20 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-18 3:58 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-16 22:29 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-17 8:51 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-17 21:04 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-18 4:58 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-18 19:58 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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