Re: [PATCH v2] powerpc: Add support for CoreInt delivery of interrupts on MPIC

2009-03-20 Thread Kumar Gala
On Mar 20, 2009, at 12:48 AM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 10:18 -0500, Kumar Gala wrote: CoreInt provides a mechansim to deliver the IRQ vector directly into the core on an interrupt (via the SPR EPR) rather than having to go IACK on the PIC. This is suppose to

Re: [PATCH v2] powerpc: Add support for CoreInt delivery of interrupts on MPIC

2009-03-20 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Fri, 2009-03-20 at 06:47 -0500, Kumar Gala wrote: On Mar 20, 2009, at 12:48 AM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 10:18 -0500, Kumar Gala wrote: CoreInt provides a mechansim to deliver the IRQ vector directly into the core on an interrupt (via the SPR EPR) rather than

Re: [PATCH v2] powerpc: Add support for CoreInt delivery of interrupts on MPIC

2009-03-19 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 10:18 -0500, Kumar Gala wrote: CoreInt provides a mechansim to deliver the IRQ vector directly into the core on an interrupt (via the SPR EPR) rather than having to go IACK on the PIC. This is suppose to provide an improvment in interrupt latency by reducing the time to

[PATCH v2] powerpc: Add support for CoreInt delivery of interrupts on MPIC

2009-03-11 Thread Kumar Gala
CoreInt provides a mechansim to deliver the IRQ vector directly into the core on an interrupt (via the SPR EPR) rather than having to go IACK on the PIC. This is suppose to provide an improvment in interrupt latency by reducing the time to get the IRQ vector. Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala