Messages in this thread | | | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86_64 irq: Simplify the vector allocator. | Date | Mon, 23 Oct 2006 22:29:05 -0700 |
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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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