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authorSebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>2016-01-20 15:39:05 +0100
committerSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>2016-03-02 09:50:59 -0500
commit0c2639f1d06f9c3cc15f6d988832122d8ed85f8d (patch)
tree0d5fe34d17f9da6fc9f2b956b4c55928a7c8a251
parent4eaead515e290dd8968f09245e9f5024fa7bc936 (diff)
downloadlinux-rt-0c2639f1d06f9c3cc15f6d988832122d8ed85f8d.tar.gz
net: provide a way to delegate processing a softirq to ksoftirqd
If the NET_RX uses up all of his budget it moves the following NAPI invocations into the `ksoftirqd`. On -RT it does not do so. Instead it rises the NET_RX softirq in its current context again. In order to get closer to mainline's behaviour this patch provides __raise_softirq_irqoff_ksoft() which raises the softirq in the ksoftird. Cc: stable-rt@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
-rw-r--r--include/linux/interrupt.h8
-rw-r--r--kernel/softirq.c21
-rw-r--r--net/core/dev.c2
3 files changed, 30 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/interrupt.h b/include/linux/interrupt.h
index 86628c733be7..ce50b6ebd65d 100644
--- a/include/linux/interrupt.h
+++ b/include/linux/interrupt.h
@@ -444,6 +444,14 @@ extern void thread_do_softirq(void);
extern void open_softirq(int nr, void (*action)(struct softirq_action *));
extern void softirq_init(void);
extern void __raise_softirq_irqoff(unsigned int nr);
+#ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT_FULL
+extern void __raise_softirq_irqoff_ksoft(unsigned int nr);
+#else
+static inline void __raise_softirq_irqoff_ksoft(unsigned int nr)
+{
+ __raise_softirq_irqoff(nr);
+}
+#endif
extern void raise_softirq_irqoff(unsigned int nr);
extern void raise_softirq(unsigned int nr);
diff --git a/kernel/softirq.c b/kernel/softirq.c
index 40dbf5fcc869..a55e80dca611 100644
--- a/kernel/softirq.c
+++ b/kernel/softirq.c
@@ -704,6 +704,27 @@ void __raise_softirq_irqoff(unsigned int nr)
}
/*
+ * Same as __raise_softirq_irqoff() but will process them in ksoftirqd
+ */
+void __raise_softirq_irqoff_ksoft(unsigned int nr)
+{
+ unsigned int mask;
+
+ if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!__this_cpu_read(ksoftirqd) ||
+ !__this_cpu_read(ktimer_softirqd)))
+ return;
+ mask = 1UL << nr;
+
+ trace_softirq_raise(nr);
+ or_softirq_pending(mask);
+ if (mask & TIMER_SOFTIRQS)
+ __this_cpu_read(ktimer_softirqd)->softirqs_raised |= mask;
+ else
+ __this_cpu_read(ksoftirqd)->softirqs_raised |= mask;
+ wakeup_proper_softirq(nr);
+}
+
+/*
* This function must run with irqs disabled!
*/
void raise_softirq_irqoff(unsigned int nr)
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index b89a1dd9f4d8..da674bb38606 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -4679,7 +4679,7 @@ out:
softnet_break:
sd->time_squeeze++;
- __raise_softirq_irqoff(NET_RX_SOFTIRQ);
+ __raise_softirq_irqoff_ksoft(NET_RX_SOFTIRQ);
goto out;
}