linux-kernel - Re: PCI, ACPI, IRQ, IOAPIC: reroute PCI interrupt to legacy boot interrupt equivalent

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Date:	Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:53:24 -0500 (EST)
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
cc:	Jon Masters <jcm@...hat.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@...com>,
	Stefan Assmann <sassmann@...e.de>, Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>,
	Olaf Dabrunz <od@...e.de>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, Sven Dietrich <sdietrich@...ell.com>,
	"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@...ux-mips.org>
Subject: Re: PCI, ACPI, IRQ, IOAPIC: reroute PCI interrupt to legacy boot
 interrupt equivalent


On Wed, 14 Jan 2009, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Jon Masters <jcm@...hat.com> writes:
> 
> Which leads me to conclude.
> - IRQ handling in the RT kernel is hopelessly broken.
> - IRQ threads are a bad idea.

I would rephrase that to

  -- boot interrupts are hopelessly broken

> 
> Because it is all leading to stupid patches and stupid development.

Hmm, WTF should we have maskable interrupts for anyway? Sounds like broken 
hardware design to me.

> 
> None of this works reliably on level triggered ioapic irqs.
> 

I guess this means that ioapic's are not for RTOS of any kind.

-- Steve

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