linux-kernel - Re: [ANNOUNCE] v5.14-rc4-rt4

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Message-ID: <d97c4305-d938-6b5f-073a-8d67a48fc9ae@kernel.dk>
Date:   Wed, 4 Aug 2021 10:20:52 -0600
From:   Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
To:     Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>
Cc:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Daniel Wagner <wagi@...om.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-rt-users@...r.kernel.org,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] v5.14-rc4-rt4

On 8/4/21 10:20 AM, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> On 2021-08-04 10:05:39 [-0600], Jens Axboe wrote:
>> So what do you propose in the interim? As far as io_uring is concerned,
>> it's not a _huge_ deal to do the IRQ dance, but it does bother me that
>> we're making things slightly worse for the mainline kernel just to make
>> the out-of-tree patches happy.
> 
> I'm sorry but I propose nothing other than the dance. I don't think
> PeterZ/ tglx will appreciate the ifdefery to avoid the IRQ-on/off here.
> I have no other ideas here.

Alright, I'll see if I can think of something. Don't like doing ifdefs
either, or enable checks - but at least it'd only hurt readability
slightly at that point.

-- 
Jens Axboe