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SubjectRe: [RFC 4/6] softirq: Run per-group per-cpu ksoftirqd thread
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On Thu, 2018-01-18 at 18:00 +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> On Thu, 2018-01-18 at 16:12 +0000, Dmitry Safonov wrote:
> >
> > diff --git a/include/linux/interrupt.h b/include/linux/interrupt.h
> > index 2ea09896bd6e..17e1a04445fa 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/interrupt.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/interrupt.h
> > @@ -508,11 +508,21 @@ extern void __raise_softirq_irqoff(unsigned
> > int nr);
> > extern void raise_softirq_irqoff(unsigned int nr);
> > extern void raise_softirq(unsigned int nr);
> >
> > -DECLARE_PER_CPU(struct task_struct *, ksoftirqd);
> > +extern struct task_struct *__percpu **ksoftirqd;
> > +extern unsigned nr_softirq_groups;
> >
> > -static inline struct task_struct *this_cpu_ksoftirqd(void)
> > +extern bool servicing_softirq(unsigned nr);
> > +static inline bool current_is_ksoftirqd(void)
> > {
> > - return this_cpu_read(ksoftirqd);
> > + unsigned i;
> > +
> > + if (!ksoftirqd)
> > + return false;
> > +
> > + for (i = 0; i < nr_softirq_groups; i++)
> > + if (*this_cpu_ptr(ksoftirqd[i]) ==
> > current)
> > + return true;
> > + return false;
> > }
>
> I haven't read all this, but in a quick drive-by this poked me in the
> eye. For RT tree fully threaded softirqs, I stole a ->flags bit to
> identify threads ala PF_KTHREAD (PF_KSOFTIRQD). In previous
> versions,
> I added a bit field to do the same, either is quicker than rummaging.

Yeah, thank you. It perfectly makes sense to use flags to identify
ksoftirqd thread. How do you identify in RT one ksoftirqd thread from
another? I mean, to find which softirq nr the thread is servicing?

--
Thanks,
Dmitry

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