Re: [PATCH] iio: chemical: atlas-sensor: Avoid using irq_work

[Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 1:01 PM Nicolas Saenz Julienne
<nsaenzju@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> The atlas sensor driver currently registers a threaded IRQ handler whose
> sole responsibility is to trigger an irq_work which will in turn run
> iio_trigger_poll() in IRQ context.
>
> This seems overkill given the fact that there already was a opportunity

an opportunity

> to run iio_trigger_poll() in IRQ context in the top half of the IRQ
> handler. So make use of it, ultimately avoiding a context switch, an
> IPI, and reducing latency.

...

> @@ -474,7 +465,7 @@ static irqreturn_t atlas_interrupt_handler(int irq, void *private)
>         struct iio_dev *indio_dev = private;
>         struct atlas_data *data = iio_priv(indio_dev);
>
> -       irq_work_queue(&data->work);
> +       iio_trigger_poll(data->trig);

Have you considered dropping atlas_interrupt_trigger_ops() altogether?

>         return IRQ_HANDLED;

...

>         if (client->irq > 0) {
>                 /* interrupt pin toggles on new conversion */
>                 ret = devm_request_threaded_irq(&client->dev, client->irq,

> -                               NULL, atlas_interrupt_handler,
> +                               atlas_interrupt_handler, NULL,

So, you move it from threaded IRQ to be a hard IRQ handler (we have a
separate call for this).
Can you guarantee that handling of those events will be fast enough?

>                                 IRQF_TRIGGER_RISING |
>                                 IRQF_TRIGGER_FALLING | IRQF_ONESHOT,
>                                 "atlas_irq",


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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko