From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933165Ab0E1Rjw (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 May 2010 13:39:52 -0400 Received: from king.tilera.com ([72.1.168.226]:7155 "EHLO king.tilera.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932912Ab0E1RiA (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 May 2010 13:38:00 -0400 Message-ID: <4BFFFF73.2040600@tilera.com> Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 13:37:55 -0400 From: Chris Metcalf User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Thomas Gleixner CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: arch/tile References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 28 May 2010 17:37:59.0202 (UTC) FILETIME=[83B4C820:01CAFE8C] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 5/26/2010 10:05 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote: >> We have an outstanding enhancement request in our bug tracking system to >> switch to using the Linux generic IRQs directly, and plan to implement >> it prior to our next major release. But we haven't done it yet, and >> this code, though somewhat crufty, is reasonably stable. I'm also not >> the primary maintainer of this particular piece of code, so I'd rather >> wait until that person frees up and have him do it, instead of trying to >> hack it myself. >> > It should be rather straight forward and can be efficiently done > with the handle_simple_irq() handler AFAICS. So I'd prefer to see > that fixed befor the code gets merged. > OK, we have made changes to integrate to the Linux PERCPU IRQ mechanism, which most closely matches what our interrupt layer did. You should see it a bit later when I post the revised diffs. Thanks! -- Chris Metcalf, Tilera Corp. http://www.tilera.com