From: Nitesh Lal <nilal@redhat.com>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] genirq: Provide new interfaces for affinity hints
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2021 12:12:38 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFki+LkJ9kj0TMz8dhGXLXdfwgYLibkMCRvKBwVVX5+F-DP37w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFki+L=QTOu_O=1uNobVMi2s9mbcxXgSdTLADCpeBWBoPAikgQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Jun 7, 2021 at 1:00 PM Nitesh Lal <nilal@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, May 21, 2021 at 8:03 AM Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:
> >
> > The discussion about removing the side effect of irq_set_affinity_hint() of
> > actually applying the cpumask (if not NULL) as affinity to the interrupt,
> > unearthed a few unpleasantries:
> >
> > 1) The modular perf drivers rely on the current behaviour for the very
> > wrong reasons.
> >
> > 2) While none of the other drivers prevents user space from changing
> > the affinity, a cursorily inspection shows that there are at least
> > expectations in some drivers.
> >
> > #1 needs to be cleaned up anyway, so that's not a problem
> >
> > #2 might result in subtle regressions especially when irqbalanced (which
> > nowadays ignores the affinity hint) is disabled.
> >
> > Provide new interfaces:
> >
> > irq_update_affinity_hint() - Only sets the affinity hint pointer
> > irq_apply_affinity_hint() - Set the pointer and apply the affinity to
> > the interrupt
> >
> > Make irq_set_affinity_hint() a wrapper around irq_apply_affinity_hint() and
> > document it to be phased out.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210501021832.743094-1-jesse.brandeburg@intel.com
> > ---
> > Applies on:
> > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git irq/core
> > ---
> > include/linux/interrupt.h | 41 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> > kernel/irq/manage.c | 8 ++++----
> > 2 files changed, 44 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> >
> > --- a/include/linux/interrupt.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/interrupt.h
> > @@ -328,7 +328,46 @@ extern int irq_force_affinity(unsigned i
> > extern int irq_can_set_affinity(unsigned int irq);
> > extern int irq_select_affinity(unsigned int irq);
> >
> > -extern int irq_set_affinity_hint(unsigned int irq, const struct cpumask *m);
> > +extern int __irq_apply_affinity_hint(unsigned int irq, const struct cpumask *m,
> > + bool setaffinity);
> > +
> > +/**
> > + * irq_update_affinity_hint - Update the affinity hint
> > + * @irq: Interrupt to update
> > + * @cpumask: cpumask pointer (NULL to clear the hint)
> > + *
> > + * Updates the affinity hint, but does not change the affinity of the interrupt.
> > + */
> > +static inline int
> > +irq_update_affinity_hint(unsigned int irq, const struct cpumask *m)
> > +{
> > + return __irq_apply_affinity_hint(irq, m, true);
> > +}
> > +
> > +/**
> > + * irq_apply_affinity_hint - Update the affinity hint and apply the provided
> > + * cpumask to the interrupt
> > + * @irq: Interrupt to update
> > + * @cpumask: cpumask pointer (NULL to clear the hint)
> > + *
> > + * Updates the affinity hint and if @cpumask is not NULL it applies it as
> > + * the affinity of that interrupt.
> > + */
> > +static inline int
> > +irq_apply_affinity_hint(unsigned int irq, const struct cpumask *m)
> > +{
> > + return __irq_apply_affinity_hint(irq, m, true);
> > +}
> > +
> > +/*
> > + * Deprecated. Use irq_update_affinity_hint() or irq_apply_affinity_hint()
> > + * instead.
> > + */
> > +static inline int irq_set_affinity_hint(unsigned int irq, const struct cpumask *m)
> > +{
> > + return irq_apply_affinity_hint(irq, cpumask);
>
> Another change required here, the above should be 'm' instead of 'cpumask'.
I am going to and make the suggested changes to this patch and will post it
with driver patches.
Please let me know if there are any objections to that.
>
> > +}
> > +
> > extern int irq_update_affinity_desc(unsigned int irq,
> > struct irq_affinity_desc *affinity);
> >
> > --- a/kernel/irq/manage.c
> > +++ b/kernel/irq/manage.c
> > @@ -487,7 +487,8 @@ int irq_force_affinity(unsigned int irq,
> > }
> > EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(irq_force_affinity);
> >
> > -int irq_set_affinity_hint(unsigned int irq, const struct cpumask *m)
> > +int __irq_apply_affinity_hint(unsigned int irq, const struct cpumask *m,
> > + bool setaffinity)
> > {
> > unsigned long flags;
> > struct irq_desc *desc = irq_get_desc_lock(irq, &flags, IRQ_GET_DESC_CHECK_GLOBAL);
> > @@ -496,12 +497,11 @@ int irq_set_affinity_hint(unsigned int i
> > return -EINVAL;
> > desc->affinity_hint = m;
> > irq_put_desc_unlock(desc, flags);
> > - /* set the initial affinity to prevent every interrupt being on CPU0 */
> > - if (m)
> > + if (m && setaffinity)
> > __irq_set_affinity(irq, m, false);
> > return 0;
> > }
> > -EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(irq_set_affinity_hint);
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__irq_apply_affinity_hint);
> >
> > static void irq_affinity_notify(struct work_struct *work)
> > {
> >
>
>
> --
> Thanks
> Nitesh
--
Thanks
Nitesh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-06-14 16:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-01 2:18 [PATCH tip:irq/core v1] genirq: remove auto-set of the mask when setting the hint Jesse Brandeburg
2021-05-04 12:15 ` Robin Murphy
2021-05-04 14:29 ` Nitesh Lal
2021-05-04 16:23 ` Jesse Brandeburg
2021-05-17 16:57 ` Nitesh Lal
2021-05-17 17:26 ` Robin Murphy
2021-05-17 18:08 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-05-17 18:50 ` Robin Murphy
2021-05-17 19:08 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-05-17 19:43 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-05-17 20:18 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-05-17 18:21 ` Nitesh Lal
2021-05-17 19:47 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-05-17 21:13 ` Nitesh Lal
2021-05-17 20:48 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-05-17 22:44 ` Nitesh Lal
2021-05-18 0:03 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-05-18 0:23 ` Nitesh Lal
2021-05-20 21:57 ` Nitesh Lal
2021-05-21 0:03 ` Nitesh Lal
2021-05-21 11:56 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-05-21 12:03 ` [PATCH] genirq: Provide new interfaces for affinity hints Thomas Gleixner
2021-05-21 15:45 ` Lijun Pan
2021-05-21 21:45 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-05-21 16:13 ` Nitesh Lal
2021-05-21 21:48 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-06-04 20:35 ` Nitesh Lal
2021-05-27 10:03 ` Shung-Hsi Yu
2021-05-27 10:21 ` Shung-Hsi Yu
2021-05-27 13:06 ` Nitesh Lal
2021-05-28 7:20 ` Shung-Hsi Yu
2021-06-07 17:00 ` Nitesh Lal
2021-06-14 16:12 ` Nitesh Lal [this message]
2021-05-21 13:46 ` [PATCH tip:irq/core v1] genirq: remove auto-set of the mask when setting the hint Nitesh Lal
2021-05-21 15:15 ` Thomas Gleixner
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