A clockevent IRQ delivery question

Jon Loeliger loeliger at gmail.com
Fri Jun 20 08:31:06 PDT 2014


> Note that there is an outstanding bug report that the IRQ affinity
> forcing breaks CPU hotplug... which would be a regression.  Linus'
> policy is that if a bug fix causes a new regression, then the bug
> fix is wrong and needs to be reverted.

Thanks, Russell.  Yeah, I *just* saw that too.

> So... don't hang your hopes on this just yet... the "fix" for this
> _has_ caused a regression elsewhere, and we need to sort out what
> we're doing about that first.

OK, I'll leave things as they stand in my port for now
as that appears to be working even if not ideal yet!

And Daniel, while it looks like I understand it better now (Thanks!),
I'm going to wait a bit to see where that bug settles out! :-)

Thanks,
jdl



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