On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 22:23:21 +0100 Thomas Gleixner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 14:09 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > I think the term 'timer_interrupt' is a bit generic-sounding. Would it be > > better to call it irqpoll_interrupt? After all, some architecture might > > want to use, umm, the keyboard interrupt to trigger IRQ polling ;) > > Interesting thought, but in general I have to agree. > > > Also, the code presently passes the magic IRQ number into the generic IRQ > > code. I wonder if we'd get a more pleasing result if we were to make the > > generic IRQ code call _out_ to the architecture: > > > Then, ia64 can implement arch_is_irqpoll_irq() and it can do whatever it > > wants in there. > > > > The __attribute__((weak)) thing adds a little bit of overhead, but I don't > > think this is a fastpath? > > Well, depends what you consider a fastpath. When noirqdebug == 0, it is > called on every interrupt. > OK, well the alternative is to do extern bool __arch_irqpoll_irq(unsigned int irq); #define arch_is_irqpoll_irq(irq) __arch_is_irqpoll_irq(irq) in an ia64 header file and then do #ifndef arch_is_irqpoll_irq static inline bool arch_is_irqpoll_irq(unsigned irq) { return irq == 0; } #endif in spurious.c - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/