Re: [RFC] Summit interrupt routing patches

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 18 Jan 2002 23:15:41 +0000 (GMT)


> alternative is much more invasive: adding interrupt code to adjust XTPRs,
> hacks to the scheduler to somehow encapsulate task priority in 4 bits, etc.

Is it necessary to try something complex. We already keep per cpu/per irq
data and if you have a lot of interrupts it feels like you can handwave them
to be roughly the same amount of cpu load.

Given that is it enough to once a second shuffle the irqs around to try and
get a rough balance based on a simple decaying history. Then all it needs
is a regular timer event to do what the hardware hasnt

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