Re: mutex vs. local irqs (Was: 2.6.18 -mm merge plans)
From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Wed Jun 07 2006 - 09:22:35 EST
* Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> during boot). In addition to that, archs need to add something to their
> actual interrupt entry:
>
> if (no_irq_boot) {
> local_irq_disable();
> return;
> }
that just moves the suckage from the mutex-debugging slowpath to the
irq-handling hotpath. (at which point i still prefer to have that in the
mutex-debugging path)
a better solution would be to install boot-time IRQ vectors that just do
nothing but return. They dont mask, they dont ACK nor EOI - they just
return. The only thing that could break this is a screaming interrupt,
and even that one probably just slows things down a tiny bit until we
get so far in the init sequence to set up the PIC.
Ingo
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