Re: [PATCH] gic: drop interrupts enabling on interrupts processing

[Julien Grall <julien.grall@arm.com>]

Hi,

On 21/12/2018 17:41, Andrii Anisov wrote:
> From: Andrii Anisov <andrii_anisov@epam.com>
> 
> This reduces the number of context switches in case we have coming guest
> interrupts from different sources at a high rate. What is likely for
> multimedia use-cases.
> Having irqs unlocked here makes us go through trap path again in case we
> have a new guest interrupt arrived (even with the same priority, after
> `desc->handler->end(desc)` in `do_IRQ()`), what is just a processor
> cycles wasting. We will catch them all in the `gic_interrupt() function
> loop anyway. And the guest irqs arrival prioritization is meaningless
> here, it is only effective at guest's level.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrii Anisov <andrii_anisov@epam.com>
> 
> ---
> 
> This is the patch [1] from RFC series, with extended commit message.
> 
> [1] https://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2018-11/msg03286.html
> 
> ---
>   xen/arch/arm/gic.c | 2 --
>   1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/xen/arch/arm/gic.c b/xen/arch/arm/gic.c
> index 6cc7dec..9f5cd95 100644
> --- a/xen/arch/arm/gic.c
> +++ b/xen/arch/arm/gic.c
> @@ -386,10 +386,8 @@ void gic_interrupt(struct cpu_user_regs *regs, int is_fiq)
>   
>           if ( likely(irq >= 16 && irq < 1020) )
>           {
> -            local_irq_enable();
>               isb();
>               do_IRQ(regs, irq, is_fiq);
> -            local_irq_disable();
>           }
>           else if ( is_lpi(irq) )
>           {

I think it would make sense to keep the interrupts disabled in is_lpi as well. 
So we keep the behavior the same accross all interrupts.

Cheers,

-- 
Julien Grall

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