Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755257AbZCQPaR (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Mar 2009 11:30:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753982AbZCQPaD (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Mar 2009 11:30:03 -0400 Received: from hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com ([71.74.56.123]:35925 "EHLO hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752609AbZCQPaB (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Mar 2009 11:30:01 -0400 Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 11:29:57 -0400 (EDT) From: Steven Rostedt X-X-Sender: rostedt@gandalf.stny.rr.com To: Christoph Hellwig cc: Sven-Thorsten Dietrich , Thomas Gleixner , LKML , Andrew Morton , Ingo Molnar , Peter Zijlstra , Arjan van de Veen , Jon Masters Subject: Re: [patch 3/4] genirq: add a quick check handler In-Reply-To: <20090317075417.GD3331@infradead.org> Message-ID: References: <20090226131336.423054348@linutronix.de> <20090226131719.640887792@linutronix.de> <20090228222408.GB7797@infradead.org> <1236283149.20484.31.camel@sven.thebigcorporation.com> <20090317075417.GD3331@infradead.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (DEB 1167 2008-08-23) 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: 726 Lines: 19 On Tue, 17 Mar 2009, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > I wonder if you're still thinking in the way of a -RT like setup where > threaded interrupts can be enabled and disabled globally? I don't think > we should ever do that for mainline. I agree with this statement. You either want the interrupts as threads or you don't. Honestly, I've never used the enable/disable threaded interrupts feature in -rt except to test if it worked. But we recommend against using it. -- 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/