On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:22:41 +1000 Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 09:18 +0200, Sebastien Dugue wrote: > > > > > Ok, that's the right approach then. It should work. I don't know > > what > > > the specific problems with HEA are at this stage. > > > > Yep, except as it behaves in way that the current -rt fasteoi flow > > cannot handle. > > We probably need to make a special xics flow handler for -rt that does > what Milton suggested, ie, bring down the CPU priority right away Do you mean creating a custom fasteoi handler into xics.c? Also, it's not clear to me from looking at the code how you go about changing the cpu priority. > and > only EOI later or something like that, instead of masking/unmasking. > > I don't know what are the other potential issues with the HEA though. Don't know either, but that I can test. Thanks, Sebastien. _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
