Subject: genirq: Allow disabling of softirq processing in irq thread context
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:01:27 +0100

The processing of softirqs in irq thread context is a performance gain
for the non-rt workloads of a system, but it's counterproductive for
interrupts which are explicitely related to the realtime
workload. Allow such interrupts to prevent softirq processing in their
thread context.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable-rt@vger.kernel.org
---
 include/linux/interrupt.h |    2 ++
 include/linux/irq.h       |    5 ++++-
 kernel/irq/manage.c       |   13 ++++++++++++-
 kernel/irq/settings.h     |   12 ++++++++++++
 kernel/softirq.c          |    7 +++++++
 5 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/include/linux/interrupt.h
+++ b/include/linux/interrupt.h
@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@
  * IRQF_NO_THREAD - Interrupt cannot be threaded
  * IRQF_EARLY_RESUME - Resume IRQ early during syscore instead of at device
  *                resume time.
+ * IRQF_NO_SOFTIRQ_CALL - Do not process softirqs in the irq thread context (RT)
  */
 #define IRQF_DISABLED		0x00000020
 #define IRQF_SHARED		0x00000080
@@ -71,6 +72,7 @@
 #define IRQF_FORCE_RESUME	0x00008000
 #define IRQF_NO_THREAD		0x00010000
 #define IRQF_EARLY_RESUME	0x00020000
+#define IRQF_NO_SOFTIRQ_CALL	0x00040000
 
 #define IRQF_TIMER		(__IRQF_TIMER | IRQF_NO_SUSPEND | IRQF_NO_THREAD)
 
--- a/include/linux/irq.h
+++ b/include/linux/irq.h
@@ -70,6 +70,7 @@ typedef	void (*irq_preflow_handler_t)(st
  * IRQ_MOVE_PCNTXT		- Interrupt can be migrated from process context
  * IRQ_NESTED_TRHEAD		- Interrupt nests into another thread
  * IRQ_PER_CPU_DEVID		- Dev_id is a per-cpu variable
+ * IRQ_NO_SOFTIRQ_CALL		- No softirq processing in the irq thread context (RT)
  */
 enum {
 	IRQ_TYPE_NONE		= 0x00000000,
@@ -94,12 +95,14 @@ enum {
 	IRQ_NESTED_THREAD	= (1 << 15),
 	IRQ_NOTHREAD		= (1 << 16),
 	IRQ_PER_CPU_DEVID	= (1 << 17),
+	IRQ_NO_SOFTIRQ_CALL	= (1 << 18),
 };
 
 #define IRQF_MODIFY_MASK	\
 	(IRQ_TYPE_SENSE_MASK | IRQ_NOPROBE | IRQ_NOREQUEST | \
 	 IRQ_NOAUTOEN | IRQ_MOVE_PCNTXT | IRQ_LEVEL | IRQ_NO_BALANCING | \
-	 IRQ_PER_CPU | IRQ_NESTED_THREAD | IRQ_NOTHREAD | IRQ_PER_CPU_DEVID)
+	 IRQ_PER_CPU | IRQ_NESTED_THREAD | IRQ_NOTHREAD | IRQ_PER_CPU_DEVID | \
+	 IRQ_NO_SOFTIRQ_CALL)
 
 #define IRQ_NO_BALANCING_MASK	(IRQ_PER_CPU | IRQ_NO_BALANCING)
 
--- a/kernel/irq/manage.c
+++ b/kernel/irq/manage.c
@@ -782,7 +782,15 @@ irq_forced_thread_fn(struct irq_desc *de
 	local_bh_disable();
 	ret = action->thread_fn(action->irq, action->dev_id);
 	irq_finalize_oneshot(desc, action);
-	local_bh_enable();
+	/*
+	 * Interrupts which have real time requirements can be set up
+	 * to avoid softirq processing in the thread handler. This is
+	 * safe as these interrupts do not raise soft interrupts.
+	 */
+	if (irq_settings_no_softirq_call(desc))
+		_local_bh_enable();
+	else
+		local_bh_enable();
 	return ret;
 }
 
@@ -1128,6 +1136,9 @@ __setup_irq(unsigned int irq, struct irq
 			irqd_set(&desc->irq_data, IRQD_NO_BALANCING);
 		}
 
+		if (new->flags & IRQF_NO_SOFTIRQ_CALL)
+			irq_settings_set_no_softirq_call(desc);
+
 		/* Set default affinity mask once everything is setup */
 		setup_affinity(irq, desc, mask);
 
--- a/kernel/irq/settings.h
+++ b/kernel/irq/settings.h
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ enum {
 	_IRQ_NO_BALANCING	= IRQ_NO_BALANCING,
 	_IRQ_NESTED_THREAD	= IRQ_NESTED_THREAD,
 	_IRQ_PER_CPU_DEVID	= IRQ_PER_CPU_DEVID,
+	_IRQ_NO_SOFTIRQ_CALL	= IRQ_NO_SOFTIRQ_CALL,
 	_IRQF_MODIFY_MASK	= IRQF_MODIFY_MASK,
 };
 
@@ -26,6 +27,7 @@ enum {
 #define IRQ_NOAUTOEN		GOT_YOU_MORON
 #define IRQ_NESTED_THREAD	GOT_YOU_MORON
 #define IRQ_PER_CPU_DEVID	GOT_YOU_MORON
+#define IRQ_NO_SOFTIRQ_CALL	GOT_YOU_MORON
 #undef IRQF_MODIFY_MASK
 #define IRQF_MODIFY_MASK	GOT_YOU_MORON
 
@@ -36,6 +38,16 @@ irq_settings_clr_and_set(struct irq_desc
 	desc->status_use_accessors |= (set & _IRQF_MODIFY_MASK);
 }
 
+static inline bool irq_settings_no_softirq_call(struct irq_desc *desc)
+{
+	return desc->status_use_accessors & _IRQ_NO_SOFTIRQ_CALL;
+}
+
+static inline void irq_settings_set_no_softirq_call(struct irq_desc *desc)
+{
+	desc->status_use_accessors |= _IRQ_NO_SOFTIRQ_CALL;
+}
+
 static inline bool irq_settings_is_per_cpu(struct irq_desc *desc)
 {
 	return desc->status_use_accessors & _IRQ_PER_CPU;
--- a/kernel/softirq.c
+++ b/kernel/softirq.c
@@ -417,6 +417,13 @@ void local_bh_enable_ip(unsigned long ip
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(local_bh_enable_ip);
 
+void _local_bh_enable(void)
+{
+	current->softirq_nestcnt--;
+	migrate_enable();
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(_local_bh_enable);
+
 /* For tracing */
 int notrace __in_softirq(void)
 {