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From: Kevin Hilman <khilman@kernel.org>
To: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	ulf.hansson@linaro.org, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org,
	daniel.lezcano@linaro.org, rjw@rjwysocki.net,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Lina Iyer <lina.iyer@linaro.org>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/4] irq: Allow multiple clients to register for irq affinity notification
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 08:10:04 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7hioka4dv7.fsf@deeprootsystems.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140926094003.GL5182@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> (Russell King's message of "Fri, 26 Sep 2014 10:40:03 +0100")

Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> writes:

> On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 11:29:56AM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>> On Thu, 25 Sep 2014, Kevin Hilman wrote:
>> > Maybe I'm missing something, or maybe we're just lucky and nobody uses
>> > them together, but irq_set_affinity_notifier() only allows a single
>> > notifier to be registered at any given time.  So if you had a system
>> 
>> A single notifier per irq .....
>
> So what about two drivers wanting to use this notifier, but sharing an
> interrupt?
>
> It sounds to me like this notifier was misdesigned from the very start,
> and it should always have supported multiple notifiers.

I agree.

$SUBJECT patch tries to add that support, and is part of a series
wanting to use these notifiers in the PM QoS subsystem, while at the
same time not breaking existing users.

I suppose this series could be written without $SUBJECT patch, and
crossing fingers in the hopes that an existing user of the notifiers
doesn't also need to use the pm_qos constraints, but that seems like
knowingly leaving an armed landmine laying around.

Kevin

  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-26 15:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-27 20:14 [PATCH v3 0/4] PM QoS: per-cpu PM QoS support Lina Iyer
2014-08-27 20:14 ` [PATCH v3 1/4] QoS: Modify data structures and function arguments for scalability Lina Iyer
2014-08-27 20:14 ` [PATCH v3 2/4] QoS: Enhance framework to support per-cpu PM QoS request Lina Iyer
2014-08-27 20:14 ` [PATCH v3 3/4] irq: Allow multiple clients to register for irq affinity notification Lina Iyer
2014-08-27 20:56   ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-09-02 18:43     ` Lina Iyer
2014-09-02 20:56       ` Thomas Gleixner
     [not found]         ` <20140924221023.GD1004@ilina-mac.local>
2014-09-25 15:43           ` Lina Iyer
2014-09-25 15:50         ` Lina Iyer
2014-10-08 15:03           ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-10-10 15:11             ` Lina Iyer
2014-10-17  7:29               ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-11-18  6:22                 ` Lina Iyer
2014-09-25 20:35         ` Kevin Hilman
2014-09-26  9:29           ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-09-26  9:40             ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-09-26 15:10               ` Kevin Hilman [this message]
2014-10-08 14:20               ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-08-27 20:14 ` [PATCH v3 4/4] QoS: Enable PM QoS requests to apply only on smp_affinity of an IRQ Lina Iyer

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