Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266366AbUIISA1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Sep 2004 14:00:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266513AbUIIR5X (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Sep 2004 13:57:23 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([207.189.100.168]:1714 "EHLO holomorphy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266391AbUIIRxa (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Sep 2004 13:53:30 -0400 Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 10:53:14 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Andrew Morton , Zwane Mwaikambo , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Scott Wood , Arjan van de Ven Subject: Re: [patch] generic-hardirqs-2.6.9-rc1-mm4.patch Message-ID: <20040909175314.GD3106@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , Ingo Molnar , Christoph Hellwig , Andrew Morton , Zwane Mwaikambo , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Scott Wood , Arjan van de Ven References: <20040908124547.GA19231@elte.hu> <20040908125755.GC3106@holomorphy.com> <20040908143143.A32002@infradead.org> <1094652572.2800.14.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> <20040908182509.GA6009@elte.hu> <20040908211415.GA20168@elte.hu> <20040909175748.A12336@infradead.org> <20040909172401.GA28376@elte.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040909172401.GA28376@elte.hu> Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040722i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 915 Lines: 19 On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 07:24:01PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > you can find a pretty good approximation done by Scott Wood (and Andrey > Panin?) in the ppc/ppc64 portion of the VP patches: > http://redhat.com/~mingo/voluntary-preempt/voluntary-preempt-2.6.9-rc1-bk12-S0 > basically you only have to zap some of the irq-threading changes such as > calls to redirect_hardirq(), do a s/generic_// and zap the PIC changes > (these are done for redirection too). Scott has tested those changes so > kernel/hardirq.c should work pretty well with ppc/ppc64. By any chance can the generic code be made not to be reliant on irq_desc[] and/or irq_desc[] being an array? -- wli - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/