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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0903171128280.10274@gandalf.stny.rr.com>
Date:	Tue, 17 Mar 2009 11:29:57 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
cc:	Sven-Thorsten Dietrich <sdietrich@...ell.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Arjan van de Veen <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Jon Masters <jonathan@...masters.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 3/4] genirq: add a quick check handler


On Tue, 17 Mar 2009, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 
> I wonder if you're still thinking in the way of a -RT like setup where
> threaded interrupts can be enabled and disabled globally?  I don't think
> we should ever do that for mainline.

I agree with this statement. You either want the interrupts as threads or 
you don't. Honestly, I've never used the enable/disable threaded 
interrupts feature in -rt except to test if it worked. But we recommend 
against using it.

-- Steve

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