Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754661AbYJBUs1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Oct 2008 16:48:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754084AbYJBUsT (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Oct 2008 16:48:19 -0400 Received: from gateway-1237.mvista.com ([63.81.120.158]:30096 "EHLO gateway-1237.mvista.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753897AbYJBUsS (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Oct 2008 16:48:18 -0400 Subject: Re: [RFC patch 0/5] genirq: add infrastructure for threaded interrupt handlers From: Daniel Walker To: Steven Rostedt Cc: Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , LKML , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , 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> <1222974254.2995.144.camel@laptop-eth> <20081002192827.GA2950@elte.hu> <1222978145.2995.172.camel@laptop-eth> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2008 13:48:05 -0700 Message-Id: <1222980485.2995.186.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: 1623 Lines: 46 On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 16:14 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > 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. Yes, he did. > > 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. My comments are basically bidirectional , so what your saying doesn't make any sense .. I said basically, that dogs and "Italian Greyhounds" have _some_ connection .. Why are we even debating this. 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/