(2014/09/25 4:25), Thomas Gleixner wrote:
On Wed, 24 Sep 2014, Yasuaki Ishimatsu wrote:
I cannot imagine why the feature makes x86 irq architecture much more clear
and more easy to maintain in this description. Of course, I have read the
following threads:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/9/11/101
Here is the long version of the idea:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/8/26/707
This is very helpful for the understanding of this feature.
Thanks,
Yasuaki Ishimatsu
Short version is:
Separate the irq handling entities in a clear layered way instead of
having vector/[io]apic specific knowledge/data in places like msi,
remap etc.
Thanks,
tglx
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