On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 15:44 +0200, Dor Laor wrote:
> Seems like there is a problem with shared irq line, the interrupt
> handler always returns IRQ_HANDLED (except for the trivial case
> were the callback is null).
>
> It can be solved by having a host irq counter (in the shared ring) and
> a guest irq counter and return
> mb(); return (host_counter!=guest_counter)? IRQ_HANDLED:IRQ_NONE;

Or we could make the callback return irqreturn_t and have an explicit
"disable" hook to disable interrupts.

Using the return value of the callback to disable the queue has always
made be a little uncomfortable, but it's slightly more efficient than a
separate hook.

Thanks,
Rusty.


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