Re: Ingo's realtime_preempt patch causes kernel oops

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Wed, 2006-05-24 at 08:55 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> Thomas or Ingo,
> 
> Maybe the handling of IRQs needs to handle the case that shared irq can
> have both a NODELAY and a thread.  The irq descriptor could have a
> NODELAY set if any of the actions are NODELAY, but before calling the
> interrupt handler (in interrupt context), check if the action is NODELAY
> or not, and if not, wake up the thread if not done so already.

As I said yesterday. You need a demultiplexer for such cases.

	tglx


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