linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] RISC-V: Move to the new generic IRQ handler

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Message-ID: <20180125074658.GD14162@infradead.org>
Date:   Wed, 24 Jan 2018 23:46:58 -0800
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...ive.com>
Cc:     linux@...linux.org.uk, catalin.marinas@....com,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>, jonas@...thpole.se,
        stefan.kristiansson@...nalahti.fi, shorne@...il.com,
        tglx@...utronix.de, Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, patches@...ups.riscv.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] RISC-V: Move to the new generic IRQ handler

On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 07:07:56PM -0800, Palmer Dabbelt wrote:
> The old mechanism for handling IRQs on RISC-V was pretty ugly: the arch
> code looked at the Kconfig entry for our first-level irqchip driver and
> called into it directly.
> 
> This patch uses the new 0generic IRQ handling infastructure, which
> essentially just deletes a bunch of code.  This does add an additional
> load to the interrupt latency, but there's a lot of tuning left to be
> done there on RISC-V so I think it's OK for now.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...ive.com>

Looks good,

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>