From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754164AbZB1RP1 (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Feb 2009 12:15:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752674AbZB1RPR (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Feb 2009 12:15:17 -0500 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:40874 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752662AbZB1RPQ (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Feb 2009 12:15:16 -0500 To: Andrew Morton Cc: Peter Zijlstra , Arjan van de Ven , Thomas Gleixner , 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 From: Andi Kleen References: <20090226131336.423054348@linutronix.de> <20090226131719.760899560@linutronix.de> <20090226153216.5db66bc3.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20090226212752.332ba546@infradead.org> <20090226214514.f8a58731.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <1235719113.4948.1252.camel@laptop> <20090226234800.4977fca5.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 18:13:22 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20090226234800.4977fca5.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (Andrew Morton's message of "Thu, 26 Feb 2009 23:48:00 -0800") Message-ID: <87ab8632od.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andrew Morton 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.