On Sun, 2006-11-19 at 21:23 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > dont worry, it's -rt only stuff.
> >
> > Still, I'm curious :-) Besides, there have been people talking about
> > having -rt work on ppc64 so ...
>
> ok :)
>
> > What do you need an ack() for on fasteoi ? On all fasteoi controllers
> > I have, ack is implicit by obtaining the vector number and all there
> > is is an eoi...
>
> it's a compatibility hack only. Threaded handlers are a different type
> of flow, but often the fasteoi handler is not changed to the threaded
> handler so i changed it to be a threaded handler too.
>
> threaded handlers need a mask() + an ack(), because that's the correct
> model to map them to kernel threads - threaded handlers can be delayed
> for a long time if something higher-prio is preempting them.
Well, the principle of controllers that do fasteoi is that all
interrupts of the same priority or below are masked until eoi happens...
so I still don't see why you need that...
Ben.
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