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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>,
	Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>,
	Stefano Stabellini <Stefano.Stabellini@eu.citrix.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu,
	xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, tglx@linutronix.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] xen: events: use irq_alloc_desc(_at) instead of open-coding an IRQ allocator.
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 16:21:43 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CC61107.4070200@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CC60D3A.1020201@zytor.com>

 On 10/25/2010 04:05 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 10/25/2010 04:03 PM, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>> What?  Why?  How?  Surely if we're asking the irq subsystem to allocate
>> us an irq, it will return a fresh never-before-used (and certainly not
>> shared) irq?  Shared irqs only make sense if multiple devices are
>> actually sharing, say, a wire on the board.
>>
>> Or am I missing something?
>>
> I think the number is not necessarily "never before used", but rather
> "not currently used".

Yeah, that's what I meant.

    J

  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-25 23:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <tip-77dff1c755c3218691e95e7e38ee14323b35dbdb@git.kernel.org>
2010-10-16  0:15 ` [tip:irq/core] x86: xen: Sanitise sparse_irq handling Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-10-16  0:17   ` [Xen-devel] " Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-10-16  2:01     ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-10-25 16:22       ` [PATCH 00/05] xen: events: cleanups after irq core improvements (Was: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [tip:irq/core] x86: xen: Sanitise sparse_irq handling) Ian Campbell
2010-10-25 16:23         ` [PATCH 1/5] xen: events: use irq_alloc_desc(_at) instead of open-coding an IRQ allocator Ian Campbell
2010-10-25 17:35           ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2010-10-25 18:02             ` Ian Campbell
2010-10-26  8:15               ` [Xen-devel] " Ian Campbell
2010-10-26 19:49                 ` Stefano Stabellini
2010-10-26 20:20                   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-10-25 23:03             ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-10-25 23:05               ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-10-25 23:21                 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
2010-10-26 14:17               ` [Xen-devel] " Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2010-10-26 16:44                 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-10-26 17:08                   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2010-10-28 12:43                     ` Stefano Stabellini
2010-10-28 16:22                       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-10-25 16:23         ` [PATCH 2/5] xen: events: turn irq_info constructors into initialiser functions Ian Campbell
2010-10-25 16:23         ` [PATCH 3/5] xen: events: push setup of irq<->{evtchn,pirq} maps into irq_info init functions Ian Campbell
2010-10-26 14:31           ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2010-10-25 16:23         ` [PATCH 4/5] xen: events: dynamically allocate irq info structures Ian Campbell
2010-10-26 14:30           ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2010-10-26 16:37             ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-10-25 16:23         ` [PATCH 5/5] xen: events: use per-cpu variable for cpu_evtchn_mask Ian Campbell
2010-10-26 14:36           ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2010-10-26 14:50             ` Ian Campbell
2010-10-25 23:03         ` [PATCH 00/05] xen: events: cleanups after irq core improvements (Was: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [tip:irq/core] x86: xen: Sanitise sparse_irq handling) Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-10-26  7:25           ` Ian Campbell

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