Re: [RFC PATCH 5/5] clocksource: riscv_timer: Make timer interrupt as a per-CPU interrupt

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Tue Sep 04 2018 - 14:58:33 EST


On Tue, Sep 04, 2018 at 06:15:14PM +0530, Anup Patel wrote:
> Instead of directly calling RISC-V timer interrupt handler from
> RISC-V local interrupt conntroller driver, this patch implements
> RISC-V timer interrupt as a per-CPU interrupt using per-CPU APIs
> of Linux IRQ subsystem.

And the point of that is? Except for introducing lots of pointless
code of course..