Subject: Re: new IRQ scalability changes in 2.3.48
From: Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Date: Sun Mar 12 2000 - 19:07:36 PST
On Sun, 12 Mar 2000 yodaiken@fsmlabs.com wrote:
>
> Previously, _any_ interrupt was let to progress. That is, hardware
> priorities were ignored by Linux.
No. This actually reverts to someof the original behaviour, because REALLY
previously we had exactly the old behaviour for the so-called fast
interrupts.
In between we had the "no priorities" version,
> It's amazing how stubbornly hardware folks refuse to consider OS in their
> designs.
Actually, I think it's more that they _think_ they consider the OS in
their designs.
A lot of operating systems are designed around priority levels because
that is how a lot of early hardware worked.. And because a lot of OS's
have that notion, the hardware tends to be designed for it. A bad circle.
Linus
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