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authorDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2008-09-23 22:15:57 -0700
committerJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>2008-10-17 08:46:56 +0200
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softirq: Add support for triggering softirq work on softirqs.
This is basically a genericization of Jens Axboe's block layer remote softirq changes. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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diff --git a/kernel/softirq.c b/kernel/softirq.c
index 37d67aa2d56f..83ba21a13bd4 100644
--- a/kernel/softirq.c
+++ b/kernel/softirq.c
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@
* Distribute under GPLv2.
*
* Rewritten. Old one was good in 2.2, but in 2.3 it was immoral. --ANK (990903)
+ *
+ * Remote softirq infrastructure is by Jens Axboe.
*/
#include <linux/module.h>
@@ -474,17 +476,144 @@ void tasklet_kill(struct tasklet_struct *t)
EXPORT_SYMBOL(tasklet_kill);
+DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct list_head [NR_SOFTIRQS], softirq_work_list);
+EXPORT_PER_CPU_SYMBOL(softirq_work_list);
+
+static void __local_trigger(struct call_single_data *cp, int softirq)
+{
+ struct list_head *head = &__get_cpu_var(softirq_work_list[softirq]);
+
+ list_add_tail(&cp->list, head);
+
+ /* Trigger the softirq only if the list was previously empty. */
+ if (head->next == &cp->list)
+ raise_softirq_irqoff(softirq);
+}
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_USE_GENERIC_SMP_HELPERS
+static void remote_softirq_receive(void *data)
+{
+ struct call_single_data *cp = data;
+ unsigned long flags;
+ int softirq;
+
+ softirq = cp->priv;
+
+ local_irq_save(flags);
+ __local_trigger(cp, softirq);
+ local_irq_restore(flags);
+}
+
+static int __try_remote_softirq(struct call_single_data *cp, int cpu, int softirq)
+{
+ if (cpu_online(cpu)) {
+ cp->func = remote_softirq_receive;
+ cp->info = cp;
+ cp->flags = 0;
+ cp->priv = softirq;
+
+ __smp_call_function_single(cpu, cp);
+ return 0;
+ }
+ return 1;
+}
+#else /* CONFIG_USE_GENERIC_SMP_HELPERS */
+static int __try_remote_softirq(struct call_single_data *cp, int cpu, int softirq)
+{
+ return 1;
+}
+#endif
+
+/**
+ * __send_remote_softirq - try to schedule softirq work on a remote cpu
+ * @cp: private SMP call function data area
+ * @cpu: the remote cpu
+ * @this_cpu: the currently executing cpu
+ * @softirq: the softirq for the work
+ *
+ * Attempt to schedule softirq work on a remote cpu. If this cannot be
+ * done, the work is instead queued up on the local cpu.
+ *
+ * Interrupts must be disabled.
+ */
+void __send_remote_softirq(struct call_single_data *cp, int cpu, int this_cpu, int softirq)
+{
+ if (cpu == this_cpu || __try_remote_softirq(cp, cpu, softirq))
+ __local_trigger(cp, softirq);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(__send_remote_softirq);
+
+/**
+ * send_remote_softirq - try to schedule softirq work on a remote cpu
+ * @cp: private SMP call function data area
+ * @cpu: the remote cpu
+ * @softirq: the softirq for the work
+ *
+ * Like __send_remote_softirq except that disabling interrupts and
+ * computing the current cpu is done for the caller.
+ */
+void send_remote_softirq(struct call_single_data *cp, int cpu, int softirq)
+{
+ unsigned long flags;
+ int this_cpu;
+
+ local_irq_save(flags);
+ this_cpu = smp_processor_id();
+ __send_remote_softirq(cp, cpu, this_cpu, softirq);
+ local_irq_restore(flags);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(send_remote_softirq);
+
+static int __cpuinit remote_softirq_cpu_notify(struct notifier_block *self,
+ unsigned long action, void *hcpu)
+{
+ /*
+ * If a CPU goes away, splice its entries to the current CPU
+ * and trigger a run of the softirq
+ */
+ if (action == CPU_DEAD || action == CPU_DEAD_FROZEN) {
+ int cpu = (unsigned long) hcpu;
+ int i;
+
+ local_irq_disable();
+ for (i = 0; i < NR_SOFTIRQS; i++) {
+ struct list_head *head = &per_cpu(softirq_work_list[i], cpu);
+ struct list_head *local_head;
+
+ if (list_empty(head))
+ continue;
+
+ local_head = &__get_cpu_var(softirq_work_list[i]);
+ list_splice_init(head, local_head);
+ raise_softirq_irqoff(i);
+ }
+ local_irq_enable();
+ }
+
+ return NOTIFY_OK;
+}
+
+static struct notifier_block __cpuinitdata remote_softirq_cpu_notifier = {
+ .notifier_call = remote_softirq_cpu_notify,
+};
+
void __init softirq_init(void)
{
int cpu;
for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
+ int i;
+
per_cpu(tasklet_vec, cpu).tail =
&per_cpu(tasklet_vec, cpu).head;
per_cpu(tasklet_hi_vec, cpu).tail =
&per_cpu(tasklet_hi_vec, cpu).head;
+ for (i = 0; i < NR_SOFTIRQS; i++)
+ INIT_LIST_HEAD(&per_cpu(softirq_work_list[i], cpu));
}
+ register_hotcpu_notifier(&remote_softirq_cpu_notifier);
+
open_softirq(TASKLET_SOFTIRQ, tasklet_action);
open_softirq(HI_SOFTIRQ, tasklet_hi_action);
}