Thread (3 messages) 3 messages, 3 authors, 2006-10-07

Re: [PATCH] Cell interrupt rework (final)

From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Date: 2006-10-07 08:55:24

On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 03:00:29PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
This patch reworks the cell iic interrupt handling so that:

 - Node ID is back in the interrupt number (only one IRQ host is created
for all nodes). This allows interrupts from sources on another node to
be routed non-locally. This will allow possibly one day to fix maxcpus=1
or 2 and still get interrupts from devices on BE 1. (A bit more fixing
is needed for that) and it will allow us to implement actual affinity
control of external interrupts.

 - Added handling of the IO exceptions interrupts (badly named, but I
re-used the name initially used by STI). Those are the interrupts
exposed by IIC_ISR and IIC_IRR, such as the IOC translation exception,
performance monitor, etc... Those get their special numbers in the IRQ
number space and are internally implemented as a cascade on unit 0xe,
class 1 of each node.
Looks good to me.
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