Re: Should irq_chip->mask disable percpu interrupts to all cpus,or just to this cpu?

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Wed Sep 24 2008 - 06:18:43 EST



* Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Other than the beautiful way we print things in /proc/interrupts
> IRQ_PER_CPU feels like a really bad idea. Especially in that it
> enshrines the nasty per cpu irq counters that scale horribly.

ok - i thought the idea was to still have a per cpu irq desc.

so lets fix /proc/interrupts in that model. Only a single entry for
every class of interrupts or so?

Ingo
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