[RFC Part2 v1 00/21] Enable hierarchy irqdomian on x86 platforms
Thomas Gleixner
tglx at linutronix.de
Wed Sep 24 12:25:16 PDT 2014
On Wed, 24 Sep 2014, Yasuaki Ishimatsu wrote:
> I cannot imagine why the feature makes x86 irq architecture much more clear
> and more easy to maintain in this description. Of course, I have read the
> following threads:
>
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/9/11/101
Here is the long version of the idea:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/8/26/707
Short version is:
Separate the irq handling entities in a clear layered way instead of
having vector/[io]apic specific knowledge/data in places like msi,
remap etc.
Thanks,
tglx
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