On Wed, 27 Apr 2005, Ashok Raj wrote:
> Hi Andrew and all
>
> It is safe to re-program rte entries in ioapic only when an intr is pending.
> Existing code does this incorrectly by reprogamming rte entries immediatly
> when a value is written to /proc/irq/xx/smp_affinity. IRQ_BALANCE code in
> kernel does this right, but /proc/irq needs to be handled the same way so that
> user mode irq_balancer wont lock up systems or loose interrupts in the race.
>
> This is already fixed in ia64, introduced for i386 and x86_64.
>
> since this touches 3 arch's managing in -mm for trial would be best to make
> sure nothing is broken, before considering for main line.
Ashok, thanks for doing this, i only have minor nitpicks, can we avoid
the wrapper for irq_desc and just index it directly? And could we use
static inline functions for MOVE_IRQ and SET_IRQ_INFO macros and use nop
functions where required.
Thanks,
Zwane
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