Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 2 Oct 2008 16:14:32 -0400 (EDT) | From | Steven Rostedt <> | Subject | Re: [RFC patch 0/5] genirq: add infrastructure for threaded interrupt handlers |
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On Thu, 2 Oct 2008, Daniel Walker wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 21:28 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com> wrote: > > > > > > > Clearly threading irq handlers does have something to do with real > > > > > time, unless this patch isn't actually threading anything .. > > > > Well, that's clearly wrong: threaded IRQ handlers are not tied to > > real-time in any way. Yes, they can be used for RT too but as far as the > > upstream kernel is involved that's at most an afterthought. > > You contradict yourself .. I said "Clearly threading irq handlers does
No he did not.
> have something to do with real time" then you say "they can be used for > RT too" .. So my comments are clearly correct , they have "something" to > do with real time. There exists a relationship of some kind or type.
What Ingo is telling you is:
- RT needs threaded interrupts.
- Threaded interrupts do not need RT
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