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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>,
	linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix irqpoll on IA64 (timer interrupt != 0)
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 22:23:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1174598601.10840.231.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070322140922.a59bea5c.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 14:09 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> I think the term 'timer_interrupt' is a bit generic-sounding.  Would it be
> better to call it irqpoll_interrupt?  After all, some architecture might
> want to use, umm, the keyboard interrupt to trigger IRQ polling ;)  

Interesting thought, but in general I have to agree.

> Also, the code presently passes the magic IRQ number into the generic IRQ
> code.  I wonder if we'd get a more pleasing result if we were to make the
> generic IRQ code call _out_ to the architecture:

> Then, ia64 can implement arch_is_irqpoll_irq() and it can do whatever it
> wants in there.
> 
> The __attribute__((weak)) thing adds a little bit of overhead, but I don't
> think this is a fastpath?

Well, depends what you consider a fastpath. When noirqdebug == 0, it is
called on every interrupt.

	tglx



  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-22 21:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-20 15:00 [PATCH] Fix irqpoll on IA64 (timer interrupt != 0) Bernhard Walle
2007-03-22 21:09 ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-22 21:23   ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2007-03-22 22:02     ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-22 22:45     ` Bernhard Walle
2007-03-22 23:04   ` Bernhard Walle
2007-03-22 23:15     ` Andrew Morton

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