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pciehp's IRQ handler queues up a work item for each event signaled by the hardware. A more modern alternative is to let a long running kthread service the events. The IRQ handler's sole job is then to check whether the IRQ originated from the device in question, acknowledge its receipt to the hardware to quiesce the interrupt and wake up the kthread. One benefit is reduced latency to handle the IRQ, which is a necessity for realtime environments. Another benefit is that we can make pciehp simpler and more robust by handling events synchronously in process context, rather than asynchronously by queueing up work items. pciehp's usage of work items is a historic artifact, it predates the introduction of threaded IRQ handlers by two years. (The former was introduced in 2007 with commit |
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.