irq_work: Implement remote queueing
authorFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Wed, 7 May 2014 23:37:48 +0000 (01:37 +0200)
committerFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Mon, 16 Jun 2014 14:26:54 +0000 (16:26 +0200)
commit478850160636c4f0b2558451df0e42f8c5a10939
tree59c82b8605bdd3dff0243084eeeef65b1efaa814
parentb93e0b8fa819c3d5641794ed9a07e643416aa0fd
irq_work: Implement remote queueing

irq work currently only supports local callbacks. However its code
is mostly ready to run remote callbacks and we have some potential user.

The full nohz subsystem currently open codes its own remote irq work
on top of the scheduler ipi when it wants a CPU to reevaluate its next
tick. However this ad hoc solution bloats the scheduler IPI.

Lets just extend the irq work subsystem to support remote queuing on top
of the generic SMP IPI to handle this kind of user. This shouldn't add
noticeable overhead.

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
include/linux/irq_work.h
kernel/irq_work.c
kernel/smp.c