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Message-Id: <1222980485.2995.186.camel@laptop-eth>
Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2008 13:48:05 -0700
From: Daniel Walker <dwalker@...sta.com>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Arjan van de Veen <arjan@...radead.org>,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
Jon Masters <jonathan@...masters.org>,
Sven Dietrich <sdietrich@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC patch 0/5] genirq: add infrastructure for threaded
interrupt handlers
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 <dwalker@...sta.com> 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
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