On Tuesday 10 April 2007, Pieter Palmers wrote: > The IRQ handler 'vectors' are called by the hardware, and these call the > IRQ handler functions registered in the kernel. Ingo's patch makes these > handler functions run in separate threads that are scheduled at a > certain priority. These IRQ handler functions then determine what module > the IRQ is for/from, and run the IRQ handler for that module, at the > same priority as it was scheduled itself. > > What I propose is that the IRQ handler priority can be set for each > module irq handler, instead of for each 'global' irq handler. Yes, that would be nice. I'm pretty sure Ingo thought of this before himself. I suspect practical reasons [i.e. too much work] for this not being implemented. Am i right, Ingo [CC'ed]? Regards, Flo P.S.: Took LAD/LAU/1394 from the CC list. dunno if Ingo is subscribed.. -- Palimm Palimm! http://tapas.affenbande.org _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-user
