On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, Alan Cox wrote: > Currently libata PIO is mostly done in the IRQ path. Albert Lee was doing > some work on that but its actually very hard to fix without doing polled > PIO.
Hmm, when the drive signals it is ready for a PIO data transfer can't just the interrupt handler mask the originating interrupt and post a softirq to handle the case? That should be rather straightforward. Maciej - 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/
