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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org,
	Sebastien Dugue <sebastien.dugue@bull.net>,
	Christoph Raisch <RAISCH@de.ibm.com>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	Jan-Bernd Themann <ossthema@de.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH HACK] powerpc: quick hack to get a functional eHEA with hardirq preemption
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:17:47 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1222251467.8277.73.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200809240958.m8O9wM7k010996@sullivan.realtime.net>

On Wed, 2008-09-24 at 04:58 -0500, Milton Miller wrote:
> The per-interrupt mask and unmask calls have to go through RTAS, a
> single-threaded global context, which in addition to increasing
> path length will really limit scalability.  The interrupt controller
> poll and reject facilities are accessed through hypervisor calls
> which are comparable to a fast syscall, and parallel to all cpus.

Note also that the XICS code thus assumes, iirc, as does the cell IIC
code, that eoi is called on the -same- cpu that fetched the interrupt
initially. That assumption can be broken with IRQ threads no ?

Ben.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-24 10:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-15  8:04 [PATCH HACK] powerpc: quick hack to get a functional eHEA with hardirq preemption Sebastien Dugue
2008-09-15 12:17 ` Jan-Bernd Themann
2008-09-15 12:35 ` Thomas Klein
2008-09-15 13:13   ` Sebastien Dugue
2008-09-16 11:59     ` Anton Vorontsov
2008-09-16 12:22       ` Sebastien Dugue
2008-09-18  7:53 ` Christoph Raisch
2008-09-18  9:27   ` Sebastien Dugue
2008-09-18 10:42     ` [PATCH HACK] powerpc: quick hack to get a functional eHEA with hardirq preemption, eHCA is close Christoph Raisch
2008-09-18 12:31       ` Sebastien Dugue
2008-09-23 15:43         ` Jan-Bernd Themann
2008-09-24  9:58 ` [PATCH HACK] powerpc: quick hack to get a functional eHEA with hardirq preemption Milton Miller
2008-09-24 10:17   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2008-09-24 11:02     ` Milton Miller
2008-09-24 21:14       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-09-25  7:31         ` Sebastien Dugue
2008-09-24 12:35     ` Sebastien Dugue
2008-09-24 21:15       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-09-25  7:18         ` Sebastien Dugue
2008-09-25  7:22           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-09-25  7:42             ` Sebastien Dugue
2008-09-25  8:36               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-09-25  8:39                 ` Sebastien Dugue
2008-09-24 12:30   ` Sebastien Dugue
2008-09-24 16:42     ` Milton Miller
2008-09-24 21:16       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-09-25  3:56         ` Milton Miller
2008-09-25  8:45       ` Sebastien Dugue
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-09-25 23:40 Milton Miller
2008-09-26  9:16 ` Sebastien Dugue

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