Re: [PATCH 1/3] Separate IRQ-stacks from 4K-stacks option

[Ingo Molnar]

* Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Okay, I'll be the one to ask... what overload of the IPL acronym are
> you using here? I asked google and several jargon files, and they all
> say that IPL (initial program load) is IBMspeak for cold boot. Somehow
> I don't think that's what you mean here.

i understood it as Interrupt Privilege Levels. The notion of having some
sort of scalar 'limit' - all interrupts with a higher priority than that
will execute, all interrupts with lower priority will block.  This is a
fundamentally dodgy concept because in reality interrupt sources are
independent entities so the natural description for of them is a bitmask
(or an array, or whatever), not a level.

	Ingo
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