[PATCH RT 04/13] net: provide a way to delegate processing a softirq to ksoftirqd

[Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>]

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3.12.54-rt74-rc1 stable review patch.
If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>

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>
---
 include/linux/interrupt.h |  8 ++++++++
 kernel/softirq.c          | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
 net/core/dev.c            |  2 +-
 3 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/interrupt.h b/include/linux/interrupt.h
index 750d1e6cbe36..5cd89e325324 100644
--- a/include/linux/interrupt.h
+++ b/include/linux/interrupt.h
@@ -428,6 +428,14 @@ 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 c10594c778fe..cce9723c5a18 100644
--- a/kernel/softirq.c
+++ b/kernel/softirq.c
@@ -692,6 +692,27 @@ 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 cfec8a542d35..ee08da0fe0d7 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -4428,7 +4428,7 @@ out:
 
 softnet_break:
 	sd->time_squeeze++;
-	__raise_softirq_irqoff(NET_RX_SOFTIRQ);
+	__raise_softirq_irqoff_ksoft(NET_RX_SOFTIRQ);
 	goto out;
 }
 
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2.7.0