RE: Why no interrupt priorities?

Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-02-27T05:41:32Z

> Is the assumption that hardirq handlers are superfast also the reason
> why Linux calls all handlers on a shared interrupt, even if the first
> handler reports it was for its device?

With level irqs only, it would be possible to return at this
point. But with edge irqs, we could miss it completely if another
device had an irq at the same time

Ben.