Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754773AbYJBTE3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Oct 2008 15:04:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754073AbYJBTEW (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Oct 2008 15:04:22 -0400 Received: from gateway-1237.mvista.com ([63.81.120.158]:54242 "EHLO gateway-1237.mvista.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753197AbYJBTEV (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Oct 2008 15:04:21 -0400 Subject: Re: [RFC patch 0/5] genirq: add infrastructure for threaded interrupt handlers From: Daniel Walker To: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Steven Rostedt , LKML , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Ingo Molnar , Arjan van de Veen , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Jon Masters , Sven Dietrich In-Reply-To: References: <20081001223213.078984344@linutronix.de> <1222912413.2995.80.camel@laptop-eth.lan> <1222962525.2995.100.camel@laptop-eth> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2008 12:04:14 -0700 Message-Id: <1222974254.2995.144.camel@laptop-eth> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.3.1 (2.22.3.1-1.fc9) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1341 Lines: 35 On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 20:42 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > Clearly you have neither clue about real time nor about operating > systems in general. Here we go again Thomas.. You think you can have a conversation without the insults for once? > Solaris, some BSDs and MacOSX use interrupt threads. Where exactly is > the relation to realtime? The very fact that you mention it in your release notes .. You mention the type of system in "preempt-rt" and the advantage of your system.. > The concept of interrupt threads is nothing which is in any way > related to real time. It is a well known and pretty old concept in > operating system design. > > The fact that real time operating systems benefit from interrupt > threads is a totally different topic. > The fact that a direct relationship exists means that any threaded interrupt system needs to take into account the inevitable connection to real time since it will be used in that system as a core component.. If you can't effectively achieve real time with your system , than that's a problem that needs to be addressed. Daniel -- 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/