Re: 3c59x vortex_timer rt hack (was: rt20 patch question)

[Ingo Molnar]

* Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Use this patch instead.  It needs an irq disable.  But, believe it or 
> not, on SMP this is actually better.  If the irq is shared (as it is 
> in Mark's case), we don't stop the irq of other devices from being 
> handled on another CPU (unfortunately for Mark, he pinned all 
> interrupts to one CPU).
> 
> Andrew,
> 
> should this be changed in mainline too?
> 
> -- Steve
> 
> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>

yeah, would be nice to have this upstream too. It's not urgent so can go 
post-2.6.17. I've added it to the -rt tree.

	Ingo
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