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From: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
To: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
Cc: Linux OMAP Mailing List <linux-omap@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFT/PATCH 05/10] cbus: retu: move to threaded IRQ and GENIRQ
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 09:04:55 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110107170455.GE880@atomide.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110107074814.GC3230@legolas.emea.dhcp.ti.com>

* Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com> [110106 23:47]:
> 
> The main point of using Sparse IRQ numbering is exactly avoiding
> pre-processor branches. Instead of defining ranges only when a device is
> compile, we can always keep the range allocated no matter if the device
> probes or not. So, I suggest dropping the ifdeffery on <plat/irqs.h> and
> move that to something like below:

This is fine as long as we we don't run out of allocated IRQs before
switching over to sparse IRQ. The original reason for the ifdeffery
was to keep NR_IRQS below 256 when possible as it optimizes the interrupt
handling in that case. See NR_IRQS in arch/arm/include/asm/hardirq.h
for more info.

Regards,

Tony

  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-07 17:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-03  7:49 [RFT/PATCH 00/10] move retu to threaded IRQ Felipe Balbi
2011-01-03  7:49 ` [RFT/PATCH 01/10] cbus: retu: give it a context structure Felipe Balbi
2011-01-04  1:40   ` Tony Lindgren
2011-01-04  6:51     ` Felipe Balbi
2011-01-03  7:49 ` [RFT/PATCH 02/10] cbus: retu: get rid of retu-user.c Felipe Balbi
2011-01-03  7:49 ` [RFT/PATCH 03/10] cbus: retu: move module_* close to the matching symbol Felipe Balbi
2011-01-03  7:49 ` [RFT/PATCH 04/10] cbus: retu: cleanup error path Felipe Balbi
2011-01-03  7:49 ` [RFT/PATCH 05/10] cbus: retu: move to threaded IRQ and GENIRQ Felipe Balbi
2011-01-04  1:40   ` Tony Lindgren
2011-01-04  6:52     ` Felipe Balbi
2011-01-04  7:46       ` Felipe Balbi
2011-01-04  7:47         ` Felipe Balbi
2011-01-04 19:14           ` Tony Lindgren
2011-01-05  6:37             ` Felipe Balbi
2011-01-07  3:04               ` Tony Lindgren
2011-01-07  7:48                 ` Felipe Balbi
2011-01-07 17:04                   ` Tony Lindgren [this message]
2011-01-07 19:15                     ` Felipe Balbi
2011-01-03  7:49 ` [RFT/PATCH 06/10] cbus: retu: headset: convert to threaded_irq Felipe Balbi
2011-01-03  7:49 ` [RFT/PATCH 07/10] cbus: retu-pwrbutton: convert to threaded irq Felipe Balbi
2011-01-03  7:49 ` [RFT/PATCH 08/10] cbus: retu-rtc: move " Felipe Balbi
2011-01-03  7:49 ` [RFT/PATCH 09/10] cbus: retu-rtc: drop the reset_occurred flag Felipe Balbi
2011-01-03  7:49 ` [RFT/PATCH 10/10] cbus: Makefile: re-enable retu-wdt Felipe Balbi

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