Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753511Ab0FYJIJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jun 2010 05:08:09 -0400 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:47550 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751589Ab0FYJIH (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jun 2010 05:08:07 -0400 Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 11:08:00 +0200 From: Andi Kleen To: Huang Ying Cc: Peter Zijlstra , Ingo Molnar , "H.Peter Anvin" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Andi Kleen Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] irq_work Message-ID: <20100625090759.GA13421@basil.fritz.box> References: <1277348698-17311-1-git-send-email-ying.huang@intel.com> <1277361352.1875.838.camel@laptop> <1277431963.3947.140.camel@yhuang-dev.sh.intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1277431963.3947.140.camel@yhuang-dev.sh.intel.com> 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: 804 Lines: 24 On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 10:12:43AM +0800, Huang Ying wrote: > On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 14:35 +0800, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > Something like this, but filled out with some arch code that does the > > self-ipi and calls irq_work_run() should do. > > > > No need to molest the softirq code, no need for limited vectors of any > > kind. > > Now, as far as my understanding goes, hard IRQ based solution is > acceptable for everyone. > > Ingo and Andi, > > Do you agree? Yes that's fine for me. The error handling issues can be solved in other ways too. -Andi -- 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/