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From: shc_work@mail.ru (Alexander Shiyan)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re[2]: [PATCH 1/2] ARM: ixp4xx: Moving the timer flags control in ixp4xx_irq_ack() procedure
Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2012 17:50:37 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1354456237.324126069@f360.mail.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20667.22941.433988.716964@pilspetsen.it.uu.se>

> Alexander Shiyan writes:
>  > Rather than modify the EOI flags directly in the timer interrupt,
>  > let's deal with these flags in the ixp4xx_irq_ack() procedure.
> 
> Why?
> 
> All I see is that you're removing simple unconditional code from two
> interrupt handlers and adding a large conditional to ixp4xx_irq_ack,
> which will slow down all interrupt acks.
> 
> So in what way is this an improvement?

This is a right place for do it. Now we can use these interrupts in any
drivers without patching last one for touching ACK.

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      reply	other threads:[~2012-12-02 13:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-12-01  7:33 [PATCH] ARM: ixp4xx: Add "ask" handler for timer interrupts Alexander Shiyan
2012-12-01 13:05 ` Jason Cooper
2012-12-01 13:14   ` Re[2]: " Alexander Shiyan
2012-12-01 15:41     ` Jason Cooper
2012-12-01 21:25 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-12-01 21:45   ` Jason Cooper
2012-12-02  0:11     ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-12-02  6:02       ` Re[2]: " Alexander Shiyan
2012-12-02 13:13         ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-12-02 13:55           ` Re[4]: " Alexander Shiyan
2012-12-03 23:40             ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-12-02  8:09       ` [PATCH 1/2] ARM: ixp4xx: Moving the timer flags control in ixp4xx_irq_ack() procedure Alexander Shiyan
2012-12-02  8:09         ` [PATCH 2/2] ARM: ixp4xx: Using gpiolib rather than a private GPIO API Alexander Shiyan
2012-12-02 13:25           ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-12-02 13:24         ` [PATCH 1/2] ARM: ixp4xx: Moving the timer flags control in ixp4xx_irq_ack() procedure Arnd Bergmann
2012-12-02 13:37         ` Mikael Pettersson
2012-12-02 13:50           ` Alexander Shiyan [this message]

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