Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sat, 19 Jun 2010 22:07:42 +0800 | | Subject | Re: [RFC 1/3] Unified NMI delayed call mechanism | | From | huang ying <> |
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On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 6:53 PM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote: > The proper, generic approach would be to enable softirq notifications (on x86) > from NMI contexts as well (it's actually possible without overhead),
Yes. I will do that. And I think self interrupt can be used as the short-cut for soft_irq if available. The next soft_irq may be too late if there is too few interrupts.
> and to > extend user return notifiers with the logical next step: nmi return notifiers. > If presented in such a form then those could use softirqs for atomic callbacks > and per cpu kthreads for sleepable callbacks, etc.
NMI return notifiers fired in soft_irq?
Best Regards, Huang Ying
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