Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 1 Oct 2008 16:40:13 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [RFC patch 0/5] genirq: add infrastructure for threaded interrupt handlers |
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On Wed, 1 Oct 2008 16:29:50 -0700 Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Oct 2008 16:23:33 -0700 > Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > > > > > I'm a bit surprised to see that there is no facility for per-cpu > > interrupt threads? > > > > per handler is the right approach (that way, if one dies, all other > interrupts will likely keep working) > > now.. normally an interrupt only goes to one cpu, so effectively it is > per cpu already anyway
Yes, if a) the thread was asleep when it was woken up and b) if the scheduler does the right thing and wakes the thread on the CPU which called wake_up().
The ongoing sagas of tbench/mysql/volanomark regressions make me think that any behaviour which we "expect" of the scheduler should be triple-checked daily :(
> we should however make the irq threads follow the affinity masks of the > irq... that'd be an easy add-on and probably worthwhile.
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