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From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/30] softirq: Make softirqs soft-interruptible (+ per vector disablement)
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2018 16:03:59 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181016160359.5523ae90@lwn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1539213137-13953-1-git-send-email-frederic@kernel.org>

On Thu, 11 Oct 2018 01:11:47 +0200
Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> wrote:

> 945 files changed, 13857 insertions(+), 9767 deletions(-)

Impressive :)

I have to ask a dumb question, though.  Might it not be better to add a
new set of functions like:

	local_softirq_disable(mask);
	spin_lock_softirq(lock, mask);

Then just define the existing functions to call the new ones with
SOFTIRQ_ALL_MASK?  It would achieve something like the same result with
far less churn and conflict potential; then individual call sites could be
changed at leisure?  For extra credit, somebody could do a checkpatch rule
to keep new calls to the _bh functions from being added.

Thanks,

jon

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-10-16 22:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-10 23:11 [RFC PATCH 00/30] softirq: Make softirqs soft-interruptible (+ per vector disablement) Frederic Weisbecker
2018-10-10 23:11 ` [RFC PATCH 01/30] x86: Revert "x86/irq: Demote irq_cpustat_t::__softirq_pending to u16" Frederic Weisbecker
2018-10-10 23:11 ` [RFC PATCH 02/30] arch/softirq: Rename softirq_pending fields to softirq_data Frederic Weisbecker
2018-10-10 23:11 ` [RFC PATCH 03/30] softirq: Implement local_softirq_pending() below softirq vector definition Frederic Weisbecker
2018-10-10 23:11 ` [RFC PATCH 04/30] softirq: Normalize softirq_pending naming scheme Frederic Weisbecker
2018-10-10 23:11 ` [RFC PATCH 05/30] softirq: Convert softirq_pending_set() to softirq_pending_nand() Frederic Weisbecker
2018-10-10 23:11 ` [RFC PATCH 06/30] softirq: Introduce disabled softirq vectors bits Frederic Weisbecker
2018-10-10 23:11 ` [RFC PATCH 07/30] softirq: Rename _local_bh_enable() to local_bh_enable_no_softirq() Frederic Weisbecker
2018-10-10 23:11 ` [RFC PATCH 08/30] softirq: Move vectors bits to bottom_half.h Frederic Weisbecker
2018-10-10 23:11 ` [RFC PATCH 09/30] x86: Init softirq enabled field Frederic Weisbecker
2018-10-10 23:11 ` [RFC PATCH 10/30] softirq: Check enabled bits on the softirq loop Frederic Weisbecker
2018-10-10 23:11 ` [RFC PATCH 11/30] net: Prepare netif_tx_lock_bh/netif_tx_unlock_bh() for handling softirq mask Frederic Weisbecker
2018-10-10 23:11 ` [RFC PATCH 12/30] rcu: Prepare rcu_read_[un]lock_bh() " Frederic Weisbecker
2018-10-16  5:28   ` Joel Fernandes
2018-10-17  0:44     ` Frederic Weisbecker
2018-10-17  0:55       ` Joel Fernandes
2018-10-10 23:12 ` [RFC PATCH 13/30] net: Prepare tcp_get_md5sig_pool() " Frederic Weisbecker
2018-10-10 23:12 ` [RFC PATCH 14/30] softirq: Introduce local_bh_disable_all() Frederic Weisbecker
2018-10-10 23:12 ` [RFC PATCH 15/30] net: Prepare [un]lock_sock_fast() for handling softirq mask Frederic Weisbecker
2018-10-10 23:12 ` [RFC PATCH 16/30] net: Prepare nf_log_buf_open() " Frederic Weisbecker
2018-10-10 23:12 ` [RFC PATCH 17/30] isdn: Prepare isdn_net_get_locked_lp() " Frederic Weisbecker
2018-10-10 23:12 ` [RFC PATCH 18/30] softirq: Prepare local_bh_disable() " Frederic Weisbecker
2018-10-10 23:12 ` [RFC PATCH 19/30] diva: Prepare diva_os_enter_spin_lock() " Frederic Weisbecker
2018-10-10 23:12 ` [RFC PATCH 20/30] tg3: Prepare tg3_full_[un]lock() " Frederic Weisbecker
2018-10-10 23:12 ` [RFC PATCH 21/30] locking: Prepare spin_lock_bh() " Frederic Weisbecker
2018-10-10 23:12 ` [RFC PATCH 22/30] seqlock: Prepare write_seq[un]lock_bh() " Frederic Weisbecker
2018-10-10 23:12 ` [RFC PATCH 23/30] rwlock: Prepare write_[un]lock_bh() " Frederic Weisbecker
2018-10-10 23:12 ` [RFC PATCH 24/30] softirq: Introduce Local_bh_enter/exit() Frederic Weisbecker
2018-10-10 23:12 ` [RFC PATCH 25/30] softirq: Push down softirq mask to __local_bh_disable_ip() Frederic Weisbecker
2018-10-10 23:12 ` [RFC PATCH 26/30] softirq: Increment the softirq offset on top of enabled bits Frederic Weisbecker
2018-10-10 23:12 ` [RFC PATCH 27/30] softirq: Swap softirq serving VS disable on preempt mask layout Frederic Weisbecker
2018-10-10 23:12 ` [RFC PATCH 28/30] softirq: Disable vector on execution Frederic Weisbecker
2018-10-10 23:12 ` [RFC PATCH 29/30] softirq: Make softirq processing softinterruptible Frederic Weisbecker
2018-10-16  4:15   ` Pavan Kondeti
2018-10-17  0:26     ` Frederic Weisbecker
2018-10-22  8:12       ` Pavan Kondeti
2018-10-10 23:12 ` [RFC PATCH 30/30] softirq: Tasklet/net-rx fixup Frederic Weisbecker
2018-10-16 22:03 ` Jonathan Corbet [this message]
2018-10-16 23:37   ` [RFC PATCH 00/30] softirq: Make softirqs soft-interruptible (+ per vector disablement) Richard Cochran
2018-10-17  1:20   ` Frederic Weisbecker

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