From: Sebastien Dugue <sebastien.dugue@bull•net>
To: benh@kernel•crashing.org
Cc: tinytim@us•ibm.com, linux-rt-users@vger•kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org, rostedt@goodmis•org,
jean-pierre.dion@bull•net, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs•org,
paulus@samba•org, gilles.carry@ext•bull.net, tglx@linutronix•de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] powerpc - Initialize the irq radix tree earlier
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 10:27:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080805102749.6ae24947@bull.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1217898303.24157.122.camel@pasglop>
On Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:05:03 +1000 Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel•crashing.org> wrote:
>
> > - Remove the populating of the tree from the revmap function as
> > you already do
> > - Move it to irq_create_mapping() for the normal case
> > - For pre-existing interrupt, have the generic code that initializes
> > the radix tree walk through all interrupts and setup the revmap for
> > them. If that needs locking vs. concurrent irq_create_mapping, it's
> > easy to use one of the available spinlocks for that.
>
> And in fact, you may even be able to avoid GFP_ATOMIC completely here
> and switch it to GFP_KERNEL since irq_create_mapping() can sleep afaik,
> provided that you avoid the spinlocking.
Well, maybe, will have to look into this in details.
Thanks,
Sebastien.
>
> Ben.
>
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-05 10:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-04 11:08 [PATCH 0/3 V2] powerpc - Make the irq reverse mapping tree lockless Sebastien Dugue
2008-08-04 11:08 ` [PATCH 1/3] powerpc - Initialize the irq radix tree earlier Sebastien Dugue
2008-08-05 1:03 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-08-05 1:05 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-08-05 8:27 ` Sebastien Dugue [this message]
2008-08-05 8:26 ` Sebastien Dugue
2008-08-04 11:08 ` [PATCH 2/3] powerpc - Separate the irq radix tree insertion and lookup Sebastien Dugue
2008-08-04 11:08 ` [PATCH 3/3] powerpc - Make the irq reverse mapping radix tree lockless Sebastien Dugue
2008-08-04 16:31 ` Daniel Walker
2008-08-05 8:28 ` Sebastien Dugue
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