linux-kernel - Re: [patch 4/4] genirq: add support for threaded interrupt handlers

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Date:	Mon, 02 Mar 2009 14:21:48 +0100
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
Cc:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...e.hu,
	jonathan@...masters.org
Subject: Re: [patch 4/4] genirq: add support for threaded interrupt handlers

On Sat, 2009-02-28 at 14:46 +0100, Stefan Richter wrote:
> > We also tried to bind the IRQ thread to the CPU if it were to run a 
> > softirq. But that too had issues. If the IRQ thread was bound to a CPU and 
> > a higher priority process preempted it, that IRQ handler could not migrate 
> > to another CPU to finish the work. Now the IRQ handler would need to wait 
> > for that high priority process to give up the CPU in order to continue.
> > 
> > The solution is to redesign the softirq code to handle migration.
> 
> Do you mean "redesign the softirq framework" or "redesign the softirq
> framework users"?
> 
> (In the particular case of firewire, the latter should be just fine.)

The latter.

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