Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266427AbUIISAZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Sep 2004 14:00:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266622AbUIIR5z (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Sep 2004 13:57:55 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:45778 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266595AbUIIRzD (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Sep 2004 13:55:03 -0400 Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 19:54:41 +0200 From: Arjan van de Ven To: William Lee Irwin III , Ingo Molnar , Christoph Hellwig , Andrew Morton , Zwane Mwaikambo , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Scott Wood Subject: Re: [patch] generic-hardirqs-2.6.9-rc1-mm4.patch Message-ID: <20040909175441.GA25686@devserv.devel.redhat.com> References: <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> <20040909175314.GD3106@holomorphy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="qMm9M+Fa2AknHoGS" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040909175314.GD3106@holomorphy.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1598 Lines: 42 --qMm9M+Fa2AknHoGS Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 10:53:14AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > 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? I would say one step at a time. First extract out the code that most arch's share already only THEN start working on seeing if the few remaining ones can be moved in, and if other cleanups are appropriate --qMm9M+Fa2AknHoGS Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBQJjhxULwo51rQBIRAs2OAKCCbcpjwZhMR0Ji4PxAQluLB4os7wCgqoqV cvKG274MJEpRKoBzwizNbmY= =AoDo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --qMm9M+Fa2AknHoGS-- - 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/