[RFC Part2 v1 00/21] Enable hierarchy irqdomian on x86 platforms

Thomas Gleixner
2014-09-24T19:25:16Z

On Wed, 24 Sep 2014, Yasuaki Ishimatsu wrote:
> I cannot imagine why the feature makes x86 irq architecture much more clear
> and more easy to maintain in this description. Of course, I have read the
> following threads:
>
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/9/11/101

Here is the long version of the idea:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/8/26/707

Short version is:

Separate the irq handling entities in a clear layered way instead of
having vector/[io]apic specific knowledge/data in places like msi,
remap etc.

Thanks,

tglx