Re: [PATCH RFC 1/1] genirq: Make threaded handler use irq affinity for managed interrupt

From: Marc Zyngier
Date: Mon Dec 09 2019 - 10:18:01 EST


On 2019-12-09 15:09, Hannes Reinecke wrote:

[slight digression]

My idea here is slightly different: can't we leverage SMT?
Most modern CPUs do SMT (I guess even ARM does it nowadays)
(Yes, I know about spectre and things. We're talking performance here :-)

I only know two of those: Cavium TX2 and ARM Neoverse-E1.
ARM SMT CPUs are the absolute minority (and I can't say I'm displeased).

M,
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