From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: parisc-linux@parisc-linux.org, Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Generic IRQ support
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 13:10:28 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041210131028.GA11305@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041210055140.GC26739@colo.lackof.org>
On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 10:51:40PM -0700, Grant Grundler wrote:
> Yes - it's certainly feasible.
> I've proposed something similar several years ago:
> http://lists.parisc-linux.org/pipermail/parisc-linux/2000-October/009640.html
>
> Last year Thibaut Varene and I even took a run at it.
> Our goal was to pickup/add generic support for IRQ affinity.
> We got ~60% done after a few monthes but ran out of time.
I found
http://lists.parisc-linux.org/pipermail/parisc-linux/2004-August/024593.html
but I couldn't find the patch that was referenced there.
> > Machines with iosapic have one CPU interrupt per iosapic interrupt,
> > so we can get rid of the hierarchy. The iosapic still needs to be told
> > that we've finished processing the interrupt, but that can be done by
> > the ->end method.
>
> We can't entirely get rid of the hierarchy.
> There are configurations where we might have to share a CPU EIR.
> Since N-class is working now, I'm mostly concerned about it on that
> class of platform. Especially if we want to support MSI or MSI-X.
Once we start to hit problems like this (more than 64 interrupts per CPU),
we can write some code to reintroduce a hierarchy, I guess.
> You probably want to look at the source tree from Thibaut since
> that's basically the same approach we took then...most of the
> changes should still apply.
> Please poke (gently) if I can help.
If you could find that work ...
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2004-12-09 15:29 [parisc-linux] Generic IRQ support Matthew Wilcox
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