Our prior mode of operation didn't allow nested interrupts
because it makes the interrupt code much simpler. However,
nested interrupts are better for latency.
This code uses the EIEM register to simulate level interrupts
and thus achieve nesting.
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
This really only adds them for the machines I can check SMP on, which
is CPU interrupts and IOSAPIC (so not any of the GSC based machines).
With this patch, irqbalanced can be used to maintain irq balancing.
Unfortunately, irqbalanced is a bit x86 centric, so it doesn't do an
incredibly good job, but it does work.
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <jejb@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
IRQ_PER_CPU is not used by all architectures. This patch introduces the
macros ARCH_HAS_IRQ_PER_CPU and CHECK_IRQ_PER_CPU() to avoid the generation
of dead code in __do_IRQ().
ARCH_HAS_IRQ_PER_CPU is defined by architectures using IRQ_PER_CPU in their
include/asm_ARCH/irq.h file.
Through grepping the tree I found the following architectures currently use
IRQ_PER_CPU:
cris, ia64, ppc, ppc64 and parisc.
Signed-off-by: Karsten Wiese <annabellesgarden@yahoo.de>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
James Bottomley