Re: question on irqs and memory ordering

Oliver Neukum <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.usb.devel
Organization Novell
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Am Donnerstag, 15. März 2007 17:29 schrieb David Howells:

> How about the following:
> 
> 
> INTERRUPT HANDLING
> ------------------
> 
> Execution of the interrupt handler chain for an interrupt not bound to a CPU
> is bounded by a lock/unlock at either side.  Furthermore, recurrence of that
> interrupt is suppressed whilst its interrupt handler chain is executing.  This
> means that with respect to itself, an interrupt handler chain can be assumed
> to have a full memory barrier between executions, no matter if it migrates to
> another CPU between invocations.

Splendid. Would you make a patch?

	Regards
		Oliver

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