Re: [PATCH 2/4][V2] time : set broadcast irq affinity

[Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>]

On 03/06/2013 10:48 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Mar 2013, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
>> On 03/05/2013 09:40 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>>> On Sat, 2 Mar 2013, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
>>>> When a cpu goes to a deep idle state where its local timer is shutdown,
>>>> it notifies the time frame work to use the broadcast timer instead.
>>>>
>>>> Unfortunately, the broadcast device could wake up any CPU, including an
>>>> idle one which is not concerned by the wake up at all.
>>>>
>>>> This implies, in the worst case, an idle CPU will wake up to send an IPI
>>>> to another idle cpu.
>>>>
>>>> This patch solves this by setting the irq affinity to the cpu concerned
>>>> by the nearest timer event, by this way, the CPU which is wake up is
>>>> guarantee to be the one concerned by the next event and we are safe with
>>>> unnecessary wakeup for another idle CPU.
>>>>
>>>> As the irq affinity is not supported by all the archs, a flag is needed
>>>> to specify which clocksource can handle it : CLOCK_EVT_FEAT_DYNIRQ
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
>>>> ---
>>>>  include/linux/clockchips.h   |    5 +++++
>>>>  kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c |   40 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
>>>>  2 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/include/linux/clockchips.h b/include/linux/clockchips.h
>>>> index 6634652..c93e2a6 100644
>>>> --- a/include/linux/clockchips.h
>>>> +++ b/include/linux/clockchips.h
>>>> @@ -55,6 +55,11 @@ enum clock_event_nofitiers {
>>>>  #define CLOCK_EVT_FEAT_C3STOP		0x000008
>>>>  #define CLOCK_EVT_FEAT_DUMMY		0x000010
>>>>  
>>>> +/*
>>>> + * Clock event device can set its irq affinity dynamically
>>>> + */
>>>> +#define CLOCK_EVT_FEAT_DYNIRQ		0x000020
>>>> +
>>>>  /**
>>>>   * struct clock_event_device - clock event device descriptor
>>>>   * @event_handler:	Assigned by the framework to be called by the low
>>>> diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c b/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c
>>>> index 6197ac0..9ca8ff5 100644
>>>> --- a/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c
>>>> +++ b/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c
>>>> @@ -406,13 +406,37 @@ struct cpumask *tick_get_broadcast_oneshot_mask(void)
>>>>  	return to_cpumask(tick_broadcast_oneshot_mask);
>>>>  }
>>>>  
>>>> -static int tick_broadcast_set_event(struct clock_event_device *bc,
>>>> +/*
>>>> + * Set broadcast interrupt affinity
>>>> + */
>>>> +static void tick_broadcast_set_affinity(struct clock_event_device *bc,
>>>> +					const struct cpumask *cpumask)
>>>> +{
>>>> +	if (!(bc->features & CLOCK_EVT_FEAT_DYNIRQ))
>>>> +		return;
>>>> +
>>>> +	if (cpumask_equal(bc->cpumask, cpumask))
>>>> +		return;
>>>> +
>>>> +	bc->cpumask = cpumask;
>>>
>>> This breaks with CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK=y. cpumask_copy() is your friend!
>>
>> This instruction copies the pointer, not the cpumask content.
>>
>> bc->cpumask is defined as a const struct cpumask * and is used to copy a
>> cpumask pointer not the content.
>>
>> The cpumask parameter is a pointer to a global cpumask provided by the
>> cpumask_of macro.
>>
>> But to be in the safe side, I compiled tested with
>> CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK=y without problem.


Hi Thomas,

thanks for merging the patch 1 and 2.

I was wondering if it would be possible to take the 3/4 and 4/4
otherwise the flag dependency will prevent to send those to the
maintainer's tree until they gain visibility on it.


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