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

From: Marc Zyngier
Date: Mon Dec 09 2019 - 10:55:17 EST


On 2019-12-09 15:49, Qais Yousef wrote:
On 12/09/19 15:17, Marc Zyngier wrote:
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.

There's the Cortex-A65 too.

Which is the exact same core as E1 (but don't tell anyone... ;-).

M.
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