From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@o2.pl>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Stable Team <stable@kernel.org>,
Jean-Baptiste Vignaud <vignaud@xandmail.fr>,
"marcin.slusarz" <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 3/3] genirq: mark io_apic level interrupts to avoid resend
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 13:42:12 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1187030532.5330.11.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1187006835.12828.112.camel@chaos>
> handle_fasteoi_irq is special. It is used by ioapic and weird Powerpc
> hardware. We marked the ioapic level interrupts IRQ_LEVEL, so we wont
> get a resend on them (see kernel/irq/resend.c)
s/weird/sane :-)
More specifically, it's used by "intelligent" PICs that automatically do
the masking of the source (or internally handle priority levels) and
only need an "eoi" when the OS is finished processing the latest
interrupt. (On those PICs, the ack is generally an implicit part of
fetching the next pending interrupt, and the eoi consist of bringing the
current processor priority back to what it was before the interrupt
occured).
I also suspect that any hypervisor using a different method than this
one for paravirt irqs is broken :-)
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-13 19:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-12 15:46 [patch 0/3] [patch 0/3] genirq: Suppress resend of level interrupts Thomas Gleixner
2007-08-12 15:46 ` [patch 1/3] genirq: cleanup mismerge artifact Thomas Gleixner
2007-08-12 15:46 ` [patch 2/3] genirq: suppress resend of level interrupts Thomas Gleixner
2007-08-12 15:46 ` [patch 3/3] genirq: mark io_apic level interrupts to avoid resend Thomas Gleixner
2007-08-13 11:28 ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-08-13 12:07 ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-08-13 13:53 ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-08-13 14:16 ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-08-13 16:30 ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-08-14 7:12 ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-08-14 8:10 ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-08-14 9:23 ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-08-13 19:07 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-08-14 8:01 ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-08-13 18:42 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2007-08-14 7:08 ` [patch 0/3] [patch 0/3] genirq: Suppress resend of level interrupts Marcin Ślusarz
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