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Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 14:31:46 -0700 From: Greg KH <greg@...ah.com> To: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Arjan van de Veen <arjan@...radead.org>, Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.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, Oct 02, 2008 at 04:46:09PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de> writes: > > > > - move long running handlers out of the hard interrupt context > > I'm not sure I'm really looking forward to this brave new world > of very long running interrupt handlers. e.g. what do you > do for example when some handler blocks for a very long time? We have this issue today with some irqs (USB is known for issue here...) So I don't think this is a big issue, and in the end, a better idea as it might force us to confront some of the big abusers and fix them. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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