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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: [patch 0/5, 2.6.9-rc3] generic irq subsystem, description
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 22:45:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041001204533.GA18684@elte.hu> (raw)


this is a new release of the generic irq handling subsystem, against
2.6.9-rc3. This snapshot includes new ppc and ppc64 support written and
tested by Christoph Hellwig.

the core bits were reworked quite significantly. Changes:

 - split up kernel/hardirq.c into individual files in kernel/irq/

 - 80-90% of each converted architecture's irq.c file is now eliminated
   by this patch. The most dramatic one is x64's irq.c - a mere 108
   lines remained. The total effect on the 4 architectures covered so
   far: more than 3000 lines of irq.c code removed while kernel/irq/*.c
   remains around 1000 lines of code.

 - more irq.h, interrupt.h, asm/hardirq.h and linux/hardirq.h
   consolidation from Christoph and me.

 - thorough cleanup of the generic irq code.

 - compile-testing of the following architectures: x86, x64, ppc64, ppc, 
   ia64, s390, s390x. The first four were boot-tested as well.

there are 5 patches that will follow in the next 5 mails:

  generic-hardirqs-core.patch
  generic-hardirqs-x86.patch
  generic-hardirqs-x64.patch
  generic-hardirqs-ppc.patch
  generic-hardirqs-ppc64.patch

note that it is still a goal of the patchset to not break the building
of any non-CONFIG_GENERIC_HARDIRQS platform - 3 such platforms were
compile-tested.

comments welcome,

	Ingo

             reply	other threads:[~2004-10-01 20:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-01 20:45 Ingo Molnar [this message]
2004-10-01 20:46 ` [patch 1/5, 2.6.9-rc3] generic irq subsystem, core Ingo Molnar
2004-10-01 20:47   ` [patch 2/5, 2.6.9-rc3] generic irq subsystem, x86 port Ingo Molnar
2004-10-01 20:48     ` [patch 3/5, 2.6.9-rc3] generic irq subsystem, x64 port Ingo Molnar
2004-10-01 20:48       ` [patch 4/5, 2.6.9-rc3] generic irq subsystem, ppc port Ingo Molnar
2004-10-01 20:49       ` [patch 5/5, 2.6.9-rc3] generic irq subsystem, ppc64 port Ingo Molnar
     [not found]   ` <20041001143332.7e3a5aba.akpm@osdl.org>
     [not found]     ` <Pine.LNX.4.61.0410091550300.2870@musoma.fsmlabs.com>
2004-10-11  8:19       ` [PATCH] i386 CPU hotplug updated for -mm Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-10-12  5:59         ` Nathan Lynch
2004-10-12  6:04           ` Ingo Molnar
2004-10-12 14:16             ` Nathan Lynch
2004-10-12 14:38               ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-10-12  6:23           ` Dave Hansen
2004-10-12 14:47           ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-10-18 15:10         ` Pavel Machek
2004-10-21 14:47           ` Zwane Mwaikambo

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