[PATCH Dovetail 0/4] Get rid of the APC interface

[Jan Kiszka]

On 09.01.21 17:02, Philippe Gerum wrote:
> From: Philippe Gerum <rpm at xenomai.org>
> 
> This patch starts a series aiming at dropping the (functionally
> redundant) APC interface entirely.
> 
> APCs are a relic from the Dark Ages, with no upside compared to open
> coded requests triggering virtual/synthetic IRQs to be handled by the
> root domain. As a matter of fact, an APC does run as a client handler
> of a synthetic IRQ under the hood. In other words, the APC
> encapsulation adds nothing but useless overhead.
> 
> Philippe Gerum (4):
>   cobalt/pipe: drop dependency on APCs
>   cobalt/registry: drop dependency on APCs
>   cobalt/select: drop dependency on APCs
>   cobalt/apc: drop obsolete APC mechanism
> 
>  include/cobalt/kernel/apc.h                   |  32 ---
>  .../cobalt/kernel/ipipe/pipeline/machine.h    |   2 -
>  include/cobalt/kernel/rtdm/driver.h           |   1 -
>  kernel/cobalt/ipipe/Makefile                  |   2 +-
>  kernel/cobalt/ipipe/apc.c                     | 202 ------------------
>  kernel/cobalt/ipipe/init.c                    |  19 --
>  kernel/cobalt/pipe.c                          |  26 ++-
>  kernel/cobalt/procfs.c                        |  42 ----
>  kernel/cobalt/registry.c                      |  30 +--
>  kernel/cobalt/rtdm/core.c                     |   1 -
>  kernel/cobalt/select.c                        |  23 +-
>  11 files changed, 49 insertions(+), 331 deletions(-)
>  delete mode 100644 include/cobalt/kernel/apc.h
>  delete mode 100644 kernel/cobalt/ipipe/apc.c
> 

Would it make sense to introduce the pipeline abstraction of those
services first? Then you won't touch the core code twice, once again for
removing all the ipipe references.

Jan

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