Re: [PATCH v6 2/5] irqchip/aspeed-i2c-ic: Add I2C IRQ controller for Aspeed

[Marc Zyngier]

On 29/03/17 10:59, Brendan Higgins wrote:
> The main reason I took this approach is just because I thought it was
> cleaner from the perspective of the busses which are totally
> independent (except for the fact that they share a single hardware
> interrupt).
> 
> I did not make any measurements, so I doubt that I have anything to
> add that you don't already know. I saw other usages of chained
> interrupts that do the same thing (scan a "status" register and use
> them to make software interrupts) and I thought that is basically what
> the dummy irq chip code is for. The only thing I thought I was doing
> that was novel was actually breaking out the dummy irqchip into its
> own driver; it is not my idea, but I do think makes it a lot cleaner.
> Nevertheless, it should be cheap in terms of number of instructions;
> the most expensive part looks like looking up the mapping. In any
> case, I think the low hanging fruit here is supporting buffering or
> DMA, like Ben suggested.
> 
> To address the comment on being over engineered: outside of the init
> function (which would exist regardless of how we do this, if not here
> then in the I2C driver); the code is actually pretty small and
> generic.
> 
> All that being said, it would not be very hard to do this without
> using the dummy irqchip code and it would definitely be smaller in
> terms of indirection and space used, but I think the code would
> actually be more complicated to read. We would be going back to having
> an I2C controller along with the I2C busses; where all the I2C
> controller does is read the IRQ register and then call the appropriate
> bus irq handler, which looks a lot like a dummy irqchip.

As long as you're happy with the performance and the restrictions that
come attached to the HW, I'm happy to take the irqchip patches.

Thanks,

	M.
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