Ashok Raj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Is it not possible for ia64's ->set_affinity() handler to do this deferring? > > > > There are other places where we re-program, and its fine to call the > current version of set_affinity directly, like when we are doing cpu offline > and trying to force migrate irqs for ia64. > > Changing the default set_affinity() for ia64 would result in many changes, > this still keeps the same purpose of those access functions, and > differentiates the proc write cases alone without changing the meaning > of those handler functions. (and a smaller patch) > > this would further complicate the force migrate irq's when we consider > MSI interrupts as well. Since it would have its own set_affinity, and we need > to hack into MSI's set affinity handler as well which would complicate things.
OK, just checking. I'll include this change in the next batch, probably post-2.6.12-rc1, thanks. - 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/
