Re: [ANNOUNCE] v5.14-rc4-rt4

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Wed Aug 04 2021 - 12:21:04 EST


On 8/4/21 10:20 AM, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> On 2021-08-04 10:05:39 [-0600], Jens Axboe wrote:
>> So what do you propose in the interim? As far as io_uring is concerned,
>> it's not a _huge_ deal to do the IRQ dance, but it does bother me that
>> we're making things slightly worse for the mainline kernel just to make
>> the out-of-tree patches happy.
>
> I'm sorry but I propose nothing other than the dance. I don't think
> PeterZ/ tglx will appreciate the ifdefery to avoid the IRQ-on/off here.
> I have no other ideas here.

Alright, I'll see if I can think of something. Don't like doing ifdefs
either, or enable checks - but at least it'd only hurt readability
slightly at that point.

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Jens Axboe