Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 26 Feb 2004 13:02:47 -0800 | From | Tim Bird <> | Subject | Re: Why no interrupt priorities? |
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Richard B. Johnson wrote: > On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Tim Bird wrote: > >>What's the rationale for not supporting interrupt priorities >>in the kernel? > > Interrupt priorities are supported and have been supported > since the first cascaded interrupt controllers and, now > with the APIC.
Please forgive my ignorance. I'm not sure what's going on with 2.6 and work queues, but do the hardware priorities allow you to control scheduling of interrupt bottom halves?
============================= Tim Bird Architecture Group Co-Chair CE Linux Forum Senior Staff Engineer Sony Electronics E-mail: Tim.Bird@am.sony.com =============================
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