From: Thomas Gleixner The processing of softirqs in irq thread context is a performance gain for the non-rt workloads of a system, but it's counterproductive for interrupts which are explicitely related to the realtime workload. Allow such interrupts to prevent softirq processing in their thread context. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: stable-rt@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt --- include/linux/interrupt.h | 2 ++ include/linux/irq.h | 4 +++- kernel/irq/manage.c | 13 ++++++++++++- kernel/irq/settings.h | 12 ++++++++++++ kernel/softirq.c | 7 +++++++ 5 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/interrupt.h b/include/linux/interrupt.h index 3142442..71c2c0b 100644 --- a/include/linux/interrupt.h +++ b/include/linux/interrupt.h @@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ * IRQF_NO_THREAD - Interrupt cannot be threaded * IRQF_EARLY_RESUME - Resume IRQ early during syscore instead of at device * resume time. + * IRQF_NO_SOFTIRQ_CALL - Do not process softirqs in the irq thread context (RT) */ #define IRQF_DISABLED 0x00000020 #define IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM 0x00000040 @@ -75,6 +76,7 @@ #define IRQF_FORCE_RESUME 0x00008000 #define IRQF_NO_THREAD 0x00010000 #define IRQF_EARLY_RESUME 0x00020000 +#define IRQF_NO_SOFTIRQ_CALL 0x00040000 #define IRQF_TIMER (__IRQF_TIMER | IRQF_NO_SUSPEND | IRQF_NO_THREAD) diff --git a/include/linux/irq.h b/include/linux/irq.h index baa397e..2df0acc 100644 --- a/include/linux/irq.h +++ b/include/linux/irq.h @@ -65,6 +65,7 @@ typedef void (*irq_preflow_handler_t)(struct irq_data *data); * IRQ_NO_BALANCING - Interrupt cannot be balanced (affinity set) * IRQ_MOVE_PCNTXT - Interrupt can be migrated from process context * IRQ_NESTED_TRHEAD - Interrupt nests into another thread + * IRQ_NO_SOFTIRQ_CALL - No softirq processing in the irq thread context (RT) */ enum { IRQ_TYPE_NONE = 0x00000000, @@ -87,12 +88,13 @@ enum { IRQ_MOVE_PCNTXT = (1 << 14), IRQ_NESTED_THREAD = (1 << 15), IRQ_NOTHREAD = (1 << 16), + IRQ_NO_SOFTIRQ_CALL = (1 << 18), }; #define IRQF_MODIFY_MASK \ (IRQ_TYPE_SENSE_MASK | IRQ_NOPROBE | IRQ_NOREQUEST | \ IRQ_NOAUTOEN | IRQ_MOVE_PCNTXT | IRQ_LEVEL | IRQ_NO_BALANCING | \ - IRQ_PER_CPU | IRQ_NESTED_THREAD) + IRQ_PER_CPU | IRQ_NESTED_THREAD | IRQ_NO_SOFTIRQ_CALL) #define IRQ_NO_BALANCING_MASK (IRQ_PER_CPU | IRQ_NO_BALANCING) diff --git a/kernel/irq/manage.c b/kernel/irq/manage.c index 3eb233e..cd98592 100644 --- a/kernel/irq/manage.c +++ b/kernel/irq/manage.c @@ -739,7 +739,15 @@ irq_forced_thread_fn(struct irq_desc *desc, struct irqaction *action) local_bh_disable(); ret = action->thread_fn(action->irq, action->dev_id); irq_finalize_oneshot(desc, action, false); - local_bh_enable(); + /* + * Interrupts which have real time requirements can be set up + * to avoid softirq processing in the thread handler. This is + * safe as these interrupts do not raise soft interrupts. + */ + if (irq_settings_no_softirq_call(desc)) + _local_bh_enable(); + else + local_bh_enable(); return ret; } @@ -1031,6 +1039,9 @@ __setup_irq(unsigned int irq, struct irq_desc *desc, struct irqaction *new) irqd_set(&desc->irq_data, IRQD_NO_BALANCING); } + if (new->flags & IRQF_NO_SOFTIRQ_CALL) + irq_settings_set_no_softirq_call(desc); + /* Set default affinity mask once everything is setup */ setup_affinity(irq, desc, mask); diff --git a/kernel/irq/settings.h b/kernel/irq/settings.h index f166783..e1f617f 100644 --- a/kernel/irq/settings.h +++ b/kernel/irq/settings.h @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ enum { _IRQ_MOVE_PCNTXT = IRQ_MOVE_PCNTXT, _IRQ_NO_BALANCING = IRQ_NO_BALANCING, _IRQ_NESTED_THREAD = IRQ_NESTED_THREAD, + _IRQ_NO_SOFTIRQ_CALL = IRQ_NO_SOFTIRQ_CALL, _IRQF_MODIFY_MASK = IRQF_MODIFY_MASK, }; @@ -24,6 +25,7 @@ enum { #define IRQ_NOTHREAD GOT_YOU_MORON #define IRQ_NOAUTOEN GOT_YOU_MORON #define IRQ_NESTED_THREAD GOT_YOU_MORON +#define IRQ_NO_SOFTIRQ_CALL GOT_YOU_MORON #undef IRQF_MODIFY_MASK #define IRQF_MODIFY_MASK GOT_YOU_MORON @@ -34,6 +36,16 @@ irq_settings_clr_and_set(struct irq_desc *desc, u32 clr, u32 set) desc->status_use_accessors |= (set & _IRQF_MODIFY_MASK); } +static inline bool irq_settings_no_softirq_call(struct irq_desc *desc) +{ + return desc->status_use_accessors & _IRQ_NO_SOFTIRQ_CALL; +} + +static inline void irq_settings_set_no_softirq_call(struct irq_desc *desc) +{ + desc->status_use_accessors |= _IRQ_NO_SOFTIRQ_CALL; +} + static inline bool irq_settings_is_per_cpu(struct irq_desc *desc) { return desc->status_use_accessors & _IRQ_PER_CPU; diff --git a/kernel/softirq.c b/kernel/softirq.c index 3489d06..729cd0c 100644 --- a/kernel/softirq.c +++ b/kernel/softirq.c @@ -431,6 +431,13 @@ void local_bh_enable_ip(unsigned long ip) } EXPORT_SYMBOL(local_bh_enable_ip); +void _local_bh_enable(void) +{ + current->softirq_nestcnt--; + migrate_enable(); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(_local_bh_enable); + /* For tracing */ int notrace __in_softirq(void) { -- 1.7.8.3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/