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Marc Zyngier authored
We've unfortunately started seeing a situation where percpu interrupts are partitioned in the system: one arbitrary set of CPUs has an interrupt connected to a type of device, while another disjoint set of CPUs has the same interrupt connected to another type of device. This makes it impossible to have a device driver requesting this interrupt using the current percpu-interrupt abstraction, as the same interrupt number is now potentially claimed by at least two drivers, and we forbid interrupt sharing on per-cpu interrupt. A solution to this is to turn things upside down. Let's assume that our system describes all the possible partitions for a given interrupt, and give each of them a unique identifier. It is then possible to create a namespace where the affinity identifier itself is a form of interrupt number. At this point, it becomes easy to implement a set of partitions as a cascaded irqchip, each affinity identifier being the HW irq. This allows u...
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