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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Sebastien Dugue <sebastien.dugue@bull.net>
Cc: tinytim@us.ibm.com, linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rostedt@goodmis.org,
	jean-pierre.dion@bull.net, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org,
	paulus@samba.org, gilles.carry@ext.bull.net, tglx@linutronix.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] powerpc - Initialize the irq radix tree earlier
Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:05:03 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1217898303.24157.122.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1217898226.24157.120.camel@pasglop>


>  - Remove the populating of the tree from the revmap function as
>    you already do
>  - Move it to irq_create_mapping() for the normal case
>  - For pre-existing interrupt, have the generic code that initializes
>    the radix tree walk through all interrupts and setup the revmap for
>    them. If that needs locking vs. concurrent irq_create_mapping, it's
>    easy to use one of the available spinlocks for that.

And in fact, you may even be able to avoid GFP_ATOMIC completely here
and switch it to GFP_KERNEL since irq_create_mapping() can sleep afaik,
provided that you avoid the spinlocking.

Ben.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-05  1:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-04 11:08 [PATCH 0/3 V2] powerpc - Make the irq reverse mapping tree lockless Sebastien Dugue
2008-08-04 11:08 ` [PATCH 1/3] powerpc - Initialize the irq radix tree earlier Sebastien Dugue
2008-08-05  1:03   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-08-05  1:05     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2008-08-05  8:27       ` Sebastien Dugue
2008-08-05  8:26     ` Sebastien Dugue
2008-08-04 11:08 ` [PATCH 2/3] powerpc - Separate the irq radix tree insertion and lookup Sebastien Dugue
2008-08-04 11:08 ` [PATCH 3/3] powerpc - Make the irq reverse mapping radix tree lockless Sebastien Dugue
2008-08-04 16:31   ` Daniel Walker
2008-08-05  8:28     ` Sebastien Dugue

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