From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Sebastien Dugue <sebastien.dugue@bull.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>,
linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, 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: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:22:41 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1222327361.8277.179.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080925091827.29b5087c@bull.net>
On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 09:18 +0200, Sebastien Dugue wrote:
>
> > Ok, that's the right approach then. It should work. I don't know
> what
> > the specific problems with HEA are at this stage.
>
> Yep, except as it behaves in way that the current -rt fasteoi flow
> cannot handle.
We probably need to make a special xics flow handler for -rt that does
what Milton suggested, ie, bring down the CPU priority right away and
only EOI later or something like that, instead of masking/unmasking.
I don't know what are the other potential issues with the HEA though.
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-25 7:25 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
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 [this message]
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
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2008-09-25 23:40 Milton Miller
2008-09-26 9:16 ` Sebastien Dugue
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