linux-kernel - Re: [RFC Part2 v1 02/21] genirq: Introduce helper functions to support stacked irq

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.10.1409171244090.21313@nanos>
Date:	Wed, 17 Sep 2014 13:58:55 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@...ux.intel.com>
cc:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
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	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC Part2 v1 02/21] genirq: Introduce helper functions to
 support stacked irq_chip

On Wed, 17 Sep 2014, Jiang Liu wrote:
> On 2014/9/17 1:45, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > On Thu, 11 Sep 2014, Jiang Liu wrote:
> >> +#ifdef	CONFIG_IRQ_DOMAIN_HIERARCHY
> >> +void irq_chip_ack_parent(struct irq_data *data)
> >> +{
> >> +	data = data->parent_data;
> >> +	if (data && data->chip && data->chip->irq_ack)
> >> +		data->chip->irq_ack(data);
> > 
> > Why is this restricted to a single parent level and does not go down
> > the whole stack?
> Hi Thomas,
> 	It happens to work on x86, and we want to achieve a bit
> performance advantage by not walking down the whole stack.
> If preferred, I will change it to walk the whole stack.

Happens to work on my machine is always a bad argument :)

Now, I can see why you want to do that, but if we do an optimization
like that then we should really get rid of the conditional.

You surely need a conditional on data->chip and data->chip->callback
for a full stackq walk, but for an explicit request to use the parents
ack the parent better has a chip with an ack function, right?

void irq_chip_ack_parent(struct irq_data *data)
{
	data = data->parent_data;
	data->chip->irq_ack(data);
}

Thanks,

	tglx
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