On Sunday 22 October 2006 21:32, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> There is no reason to remember a per cpu position of which vector
> to try. Keeping a global position is simpler and more likely to
> result in a global vector allocation even if I don't need or require
> it. For level triggered interrupts this means we are less likely to
> acknowledge another cpus irq, and cause the level triggered irq to
> harmlessly refire.
>
> This simplification makes it easier to only access data structures
> of online cpus, by having fewer special cases to deal with.
Shouldn't this and the following patch be done on i386 too?
-Andi
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