From: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>,
LAK <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Android Kernel Team <kernel-team@android.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] arm64: Allow the rescheduling IPI to bypass irq_enter/exit
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2020 15:48:58 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jhjpn4lxlel.mognet@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19286daf276f46aa@fake-msgid>
On 01/01/70 01:00, Valentin Schneider wrote:
> On 10/11/20 13:03, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 02, 2020 at 10:30:50AM +0000, Valentin Schneider wrote:
>>
>>> Now, I'd like to pen exactly why we think it's okay to forgo irq_{enter,
>>> exit}() for that one IRQ and not any other.
>>
>> Thomas already said a few words on this, but basically scheduler_ipi()
>> is a NOP (*almost*), the IPI has no body. All it does is tickle the
>> return-from-interrupt path. So any setup and tear-down done for the
>> non-existing body is a waste of time.
Gotcha.
The pedant in me thinks this makes it more of a handler property than an
IRQ one, but I don't see a nice way to e.g. have this as a flag passed to
__request_percpu_irq() and not have it usable by random modules.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-10 15:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-01 13:14 [PATCH 0/2] arm64: Allow the rescheduling IPI to bypass irq_enter/exit Marc Zyngier
2020-11-01 13:14 ` [PATCH 1/2] genirq: Allow an interrupt to be marked as 'naked' Marc Zyngier
2020-11-01 14:33 ` David Laight
2020-11-01 13:14 ` [PATCH 2/2] arm64: Mark the recheduling IPI as naked interrupt Marc Zyngier
2020-11-01 14:30 ` [PATCH 0/2] arm64: Allow the rescheduling IPI to bypass irq_enter/exit David Laight
2020-11-02 10:30 ` Valentin Schneider
2020-11-10 13:03 ` Peter Zijlstra
[not found] ` <19286daf276f46aa@fake-msgid>
2020-11-10 15:48 ` Valentin Schneider [this message]
2020-11-03 20:32 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-11-20 9:20 ` Marc Zyngier
2020-11-20 14:17 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-11-22 16:13 ` Marc Zyngier
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