Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754814Ab0FXKw6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jun 2010 06:52:58 -0400 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:51801 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754559Ab0FXKw5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jun 2010 06:52:57 -0400 Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 12:52:54 +0200 From: Andi Kleen To: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Andi Kleen , Huang Ying , Ingo Molnar , "H.PeterA" <"nvin hpa"@zytor.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] irq_work Message-ID: <20100624105254.GB578@basil.fritz.box> References: <1277361791.3947.11.camel@yhuang-dev.sh.intel.com> <1277362073.1875.839.camel@laptop> <1277362243.3947.20.camel@yhuang-dev.sh.intel.com> <1277362680.1875.845.camel@laptop> <1277363069.3947.30.camel@yhuang-dev.sh.intel.com> <1277363993.1875.847.camel@laptop> <1277364453.3947.64.camel@yhuang-dev.sh.intel.com> <1277364727.1875.857.camel@laptop> <20100624102725.GA578@basil.fritz.box> <1277375409.1875.943.camel@laptop> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1277375409.1875.943.camel@laptop> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 595 Lines: 16 > Right, in that case I would very much prefer the simpler thing I > proposed over all this softirq stuff, we can have the tick process the > callbacks for really broken hardware (perf_events doesn't care since > without a lapic there's no pmi anyway). Ying's approach will work I think. -Andi -- ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only. -- 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/