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From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@telecomint.eu>,
	Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>,
	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Subject: Re: [patch 2.6.24-rc2 1/3] generic gpio -- gpio_chip support
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 11:22:45 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200711131122.45950.david-b@pacbell.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071113093414.GA5270@elte.hu>

On Tuesday 13 November 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> wrote:
> 
> > > > I speculate that either the design has changed (without fanfare), 
> > > > or else that stuff is in RT kernels and has not yet gone upstream.
> > > 
> > > Well whatever.  We shouldn't have to resort to caller-side party 
> > > tricks like this to get acceptable performance.
> > 
> > I'd be happy if, as originally presented, it were possible to just 
> > pass a raw_spinlock_t to spin_lock_irqsave() and friends.
> 
> that's a spinlock type abstraction of PREEMPT_RT, not of mainline.

Any reason that stuff shouldn't move into mainline?


> 	 Why do you want to use raw_spinlock_t?

Already answered elsewhere in this thread ... I'll highlight the
point that such bitops shouldn't be preemption points.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-13 19:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-09 19:36 [patch 2.6.24-rc2 1/3] generic gpio -- gpio_chip support David Brownell
2007-11-12 21:36 ` Andrew Morton
2007-11-12 22:32   ` David Brownell
2007-11-12 23:28     ` Andrew Morton
2007-11-13  1:26       ` David Brownell
2007-11-13  9:34         ` Ingo Molnar
2007-11-13 19:22           ` David Brownell [this message]
2007-11-13 12:25             ` Nick Piggin
2007-11-14  8:20               ` David Brownell
2007-11-13 21:18                 ` Nick Piggin
2007-11-15  6:28                   ` David Brownell
2007-11-14 18:51                     ` Nick Piggin
2007-11-15  8:17                       ` David Brownell
2007-11-14 19:19                         ` Nick Piggin
2007-11-14 19:21                           ` Nick Piggin
2007-11-13 20:46             ` Andrew Morton
2007-11-14  6:52               ` David Brownell
2007-11-13 19:45                 ` Nick Piggin
2007-11-14  8:37                   ` David Brownell
2007-11-13 21:08                     ` Nick Piggin
2007-11-15  6:23                       ` David Brownell
2007-11-14  9:54                     ` Haavard Skinnemoen
2007-11-15  6:50                       ` David Brownell
2007-11-15  8:43                         ` Haavard Skinnemoen
2007-11-14  9:59             ` Ingo Molnar
2007-11-14 12:14         ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-11-15  7:02           ` David Brownell
2007-11-15  7:32             ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-11-15  8:20               ` David Brownell
2007-11-15  8:51                 ` Haavard Skinnemoen
2007-11-15 18:55                   ` David Brownell
2007-11-15  7:17           ` David Brownell
2007-11-15  7:35             ` Thomas Gleixner

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