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From: linux@arm.linux.org.uk (Russell King - ARM Linux)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] arm: Improve MMC performance on Versatile Express
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 22:29:30 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110121222930.GF23151@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1101211655110.8580@xanadu.home>

On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 05:20:57PM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> The only solution in that case is to give top priority to the FIFO IRQ 
> and never disable IRQs when in interrupt context, except for that FIFO 
> servicing handler which should keep IRQs masked out throughout.  In any 
> case this would certainly be only a hack for badly misdesigned hardware.

Not possible anymore.  The kernel's IRQ handling has changed such that
generic code now ensures that IRQs are disabled irrespective of the
IRQF_DISABLED flag.  All IRQ handlers are called with IRQs disabled,
and they remain that way until they call local_irq_enable().

  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-21 22:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-21 13:59 [PATCH] arm: Improve MMC performance on Versatile Express Pawel Moll
2011-01-21 15:09 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2011-01-21 19:59 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-01-21 21:51   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-01-21 22:20     ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-01-21 22:29       ` Russell King - ARM Linux [this message]
2011-02-01 14:29         ` Linus Walleij
2011-02-01 17:25           ` Pawel Moll
2011-01-24 12:27   ` Pawel Moll
2011-01-24 13:35     ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-01-24 16:13       ` Pawel Moll
2011-01-24 16:24         ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-01-24 16:30           ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-01-24 16:39           ` Pawel Moll
2011-01-24 16:53             ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-01-24 17:03               ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-01-24 17:54                 ` Pawel Moll
2011-01-24 18:09                   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-01-24 19:59                     ` Pawel Moll
2011-01-24 23:10                       ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-02-01 11:18                         ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-02-01 13:34                           ` Pawel Moll
2011-02-01 14:28                             ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-02-01 17:25                               ` Pawel Moll
2011-02-03 14:15       ` Linus Walleij

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