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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu, rostedt@goodmis.org,
	jonathan@jonmasters.org
Subject: Re: [patch 4/4] genirq: add support for threaded interrupt handlers
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 18:13:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ab8632od.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090226234800.4977fca5.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (Andrew Morton's message of "Thu, 26 Feb 2009 23:48:00 -0800")

Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> writes:
>
> Given that this threaded-irq code appears to be new and not very tested
> in -rt, I think it would be a good idea to convert some popular drivers
> (e1000/e1000e) so that the core code gets a good thrashing before we
> merge it.

It's questionable it's a good idea for these kind of network drivers,
because the majority of work should be done in NAPI context anyways.

-Andi

-- 
ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-02-28 17:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-26 13:28 [patch 0/4] genirq: add infrastructure for threaded interrupt handlers V2 Thomas Gleixner
2009-02-26 13:28 ` [patch 1/4] genirq: make irqreturn_t an enum Thomas Gleixner
2009-03-25 19:51   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2009-02-26 13:28 ` [patch 2/4] genirq: use kzalloc instead of explicit zero initialization Thomas Gleixner
2009-02-26 13:28 ` [patch 3/4] genirq: add a quick check handler Thomas Gleixner
2009-02-26 23:03   ` Andrew Morton
2009-02-26 23:11     ` Thomas Gleixner
2009-02-28 22:24   ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-03-01  9:44     ` Thomas Gleixner
2009-03-05 19:59     ` Sven-Thorsten Dietrich
2009-03-17  7:54       ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-03-17 15:29         ` Steven Rostedt
2009-02-26 13:28 ` [patch 4/4] genirq: add support for threaded interrupt handlers Thomas Gleixner
2009-02-26 23:32   ` Andrew Morton
2009-02-27  5:27     ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-02-27  5:45       ` Andrew Morton
2009-02-27  7:18         ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-02-27  7:48           ` Andrew Morton
2009-02-27  8:05             ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-02-27  8:15               ` Andrew Morton
2009-02-27 15:06               ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-02-27 15:30                 ` Steven Rostedt
2009-02-28 13:46                   ` Stefan Richter
2009-03-02 13:21                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-02-28 17:13             ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2009-02-27 16:43     ` Thomas Gleixner
2009-02-26 15:26 ` [patch 0/4] genirq: add infrastructure for threaded interrupt handlers V2 Jon Masters
2009-03-05 20:03   ` Sven-Thorsten Dietrich
2009-02-28 22:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-03-01  9:43   ` Thomas Gleixner
2009-03-05  8:40 ` [ANNOUNCE] USB genirq " Sven-Thorsten Dietrich

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