The irq work queue is a per cpu object and it is sufficient for
synchronization if per cpu atomics are used. Doing so simplifies
the code and reduces the overhead of the code.
Before:
christoph@linux-2.6$ size kernel/irq_work.o
text data bss dec hex filename
451 8 1 460 1cc kernel/irq_work.o
After:
christoph@linux-2.6$ size kernel/irq_work.o
text data bss dec hex filename
438 8 1 447 1bf kernel/irq_work.o
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
The compiler warned us about:
kernel/irq_work.c: In function 'irq_work_run':
kernel/irq_work.c:148: warning: value computed is not used
Dropping the cmpxchg() result is indeed weird, but correct -
so annotate away the warning.
Signed-off-by: Sergio Aguirre <saaguirre@ti.com>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1289930567-17828-1-git-send-email-saaguirre@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Provide a mechanism that allows running code in IRQ context. It is
most useful for NMI code that needs to interact with the rest of the
system -- like wakeup a task to drain buffers.
Perf currently has such a mechanism, so extract that and provide it as
a generic feature, independent of perf so that others may also
benefit.
The IRQ context callback is generated through self-IPIs where
possible, or on architectures like powerpc the decrementer (the
built-in timer facility) is set to generate an interrupt immediately.
Architectures that don't have anything like this get to do with a
callback from the timer tick. These architectures can call
irq_work_run() at the tail of any IRQ handlers that might enqueue such
work (like the perf IRQ handler) to avoid undue latencies in
processing the work.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
[ various fixes ]
Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <1287036094.7768.291.camel@yhuang-dev>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Christoph Lameter