Re: Question on threaded handlers for managed interrupts

[Thomas Gleixner]

John,

On Fri, Apr 23 2021 at 12:50, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 22 2021 at 17:10, John Garry wrote:
> OTOH, the way how you splitted the handling into hard/thread context
> provides already the base for this.
>
> The missing piece is infrastructure at the irq/scheduler core level to
> handle this transparently.
>
> I have some horrible ideas how to solve that, but I'm sure the scheduler
> wizards can come up with a reasonable and generic solution.

So one thing I forgot to ask is:

Is the thread simply stuck in the while() loop forever or is
this just an endless hardirq/thread/hardirq/thread stream?

Thanks,

        tglx