Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754543AbYJBUOm (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Oct 2008 16:14:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753829AbYJBUOe (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Oct 2008 16:14:34 -0400 Received: from hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com ([71.74.56.123]:44362 "EHLO hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753633AbYJBUOd (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Oct 2008 16:14:33 -0400 Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 16:14:32 -0400 (EDT) From: Steven Rostedt X-X-Sender: rostedt@gandalf.stny.rr.com To: Daniel Walker cc: Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , LKML , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Arjan van de Veen , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Jon Masters , Sven Dietrich Subject: Re: [RFC patch 0/5] genirq: add infrastructure for threaded interrupt handlers In-Reply-To: <1222978145.2995.172.camel@laptop-eth> Message-ID: References: <20081001223213.078984344@linutronix.de> <1222912413.2995.80.camel@laptop-eth.lan> <1222962525.2995.100.camel@laptop-eth> <1222974254.2995.144.camel@laptop-eth> <20081002192827.GA2950@elte.hu> <1222978145.2995.172.camel@laptop-eth> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (DEB 962 2008-03-14) 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 Content-Length: 1296 Lines: 40 On Thu, 2 Oct 2008, Daniel Walker wrote: > On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 21:28 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Daniel Walker wrote: > > > > > > > Clearly threading irq handlers does have something to do with real > > > > > time, unless this patch isn't actually threading anything .. > > > > Well, that's clearly wrong: threaded IRQ handlers are not tied to > > real-time in any way. Yes, they can be used for RT too but as far as the > > upstream kernel is involved that's at most an afterthought. > > You contradict yourself .. I said "Clearly threading irq handlers does No he did not. > have something to do with real time" then you say "they can be used for > RT too" .. So my comments are clearly correct , they have "something" to > do with real time. There exists a relationship of some kind or type. What Ingo is telling you is: - RT needs threaded interrupts. - Threaded interrupts do not need RT My dog is an Italian Greyhound. Italian Greyhound is a dog, but a dog is not an Italian Greyhound. -- Steve -- 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/