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Subject: Re: powerpc/powernv: process all OPAL event interrupts with kopald
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On Thu, 2018-05-10 at 17:20:05 UTC, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> Using irq_work for processing OPAL event interrupts is not necessary.
> irq_work is typically used to schedule work from NMI context, a
> softirq may be more appropriate. However OPAL events are not
> particularly performance or latency critical, so they can all be
> invoked by kopald.
> 
> This patch removes the irq_work queueing, and instead wakes up
> kopald when there is an event to be processed. kopald processes
> interrupts individually, enabling irqs and calling cond_resched
> between each one to minimise latencies.
> 
> Event handlers themselves should still use threaded handlers,
> workqueues, etc. as necessary to avoid high interrupts-off latencies
> within any single interrupt.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>

Applied to powerpc next, thanks.

https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/56c0b48b1e443efa5d6f4d60513302

cheers