Eric, On Sun, 21 Mar 2010, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > With SPARSE_IRQ irq_to_desc becomes an unnecessary lookup operation on > the fast path of dispatching irqs to their handlers. We can avoid > this cost by passing an irq_desc pointer instead of using an integer > irq token to the irq_chip methods. > > A single patch to convert all of the architectures is an unreviewable > 2000+ line patch. A gradual transition scenario with two sets of > irq_chip methods in irq_chip is an unmanageable mess in kernel/irq. > > So instead I define some macros so the generic irq code in kernel/irq/ > can compile either way based on a boolean Kconfig variable > CONFIG_CHIP_PARAM_DESC. This allows us to convert one architecture at > a time, reducing the follow on patches to manageable proportions. It > is a little bit ugly but it is much better than the alternatives, and > as soon as we finish the transition we can kill the macros. > > I introduce the macros CHIP_ARG, CHIP_VAR, and CHIP_PARAM where > appropriate. I change a few declarations of irq as int to unsigned > int. I normalize the variables names in the functions that call > chip methods to ensure that I have the variables irq and desc present > allowing CHIP_ARG to work properly. Most importantly none of the irq > logic changes with this patch. I like that approach very much. Is the output binary equivivalent? Thanks, tglx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
