Re: [patch] generic-hardirqs-2.6.9-rc1-mm4.patch

William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-09T18:00:27Z

On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 07:24:01PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> you can find a pretty good approximation done by Scott Wood (and Andrey
> Panin?) in the ppc/ppc64 portion of the VP patches:
> http://redhat.com/~mingo/voluntary-preempt/voluntary-preempt-2.6.9-rc1-bk12-S0
> basically you only have to zap some of the irq-threading changes such as
> calls to redirect_hardirq(), do a s/generic_// and zap the PIC changes
> (these are done for redirection too). Scott has tested those changes so
> kernel/hardirq.c should work pretty well with ppc/ppc64.

By any chance can the generic code be made not to be reliant on
irq_desc[] and/or irq_desc[] being an array?

-- wli