From: Karl Mehltretter <kmehltretter@gmail.com>
To: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>,
Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>,
Clark Williams <clrkwllms@kernel.org>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Boqun Feng <boqun@kernel.org>, Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com>,
Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>,
Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>,
Marco Elver <elver@google.com>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
Bradley Morgan <brads@mainlining.org>,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-rt-devel@lists.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] softirq: Preserve interrupt context during IRQ exit
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2026 23:25:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <arwsK1dOHVB5KZjD@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260928082402.1iCSzDzY@linutronix.de>
On Mon, Sep 28, 2026 at 10:24:02AM +0100, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> could you please do
> (in_nmi() | hardirq_count()) == HARDIRQ_OFFSET)
> instead? This will merge NMI check into the hardirq check, dropping one
> conditional jump away.
>
Hello Sebastian,
Good catch. With GCC it removes one conditional branch on x86-64, arm64
and arm32. On x86-64 it also uses three fewer instructions.
I will send this tweaked version soon.
Thanks for the review!
Karl
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-29 21:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-26 14:35 [PATCH v4] softirq: Preserve interrupt context during IRQ exit Karl Mehltretter
2026-09-28 8:24 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2026-09-29 21:25 ` Karl Mehltretter [this message]
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