> handle_fasteoi_irq is special. It is used by ioapic and weird Powerpc
> hardware. We marked the ioapic level interrupts IRQ_LEVEL, so we wont
> get a resend on them (see kernel/irq/resend.c)
s/weird/sane :-)
More specifically, it's used by "intelligent" PICs that automatically do
the masking of the source (or internally handle priority levels) and
only need an "eoi" when the OS is finished processing the latest
interrupt. (On those PICs, the ack is generally an implicit part of
fetching the next pending interrupt, and the eoi consist of bringing the
current processor priority back to what it was before the interrupt
occured).
I also suspect that any hypervisor using a different method than this
one for paravirt irqs is broken :-)
Ben.
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