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SubjectRe: [PATCH V4] Softirq:avoid large sched delay from the pending softirqs
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Qian,

jun qian <qianjun.kernel@gmail.com> writes:
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 11:41 PM Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:
>> > + or_softirq_pending(pending << (vec_nr + 1));
>>
>> To or the value interrupts need to be disabled because otherwise you can
>> lose a bit when an interrupt happens in the middle of the RMW operation
>> and raises a softirq which is not in @pending and not in the per CPU
>> local softirq pending storage.
>>
> I can't understand the problem described above, could you explain in
> detail.

Oring a value to a memory location is a Read Modify Write (RMW)
operation.

x |= a;

translates to pseudo code:

R1 = x // Load content of memory location x into register R1
R1 |= a // Or value a on R1
x = R1 // Write back result

So assume:

x = 0
a = 1

R1 = x --> R1 == 0
R1 |= a --> R1 == 1

interrupt sets bit 1 in x --> x == 0x02

x = R1 --> x == 1

So you lost the set bit 1, right? Not really what you want.

>> There is another problem. Assume bit 0 and 1 are pending when the
>> processing starts. Now it breaks out after bit 0 has been handled and
>> stores back bit 1 as pending. Before ksoftirqd runs bit 0 gets raised
>> again. ksoftirqd runs and handles bit 0, which takes more than the
>> timeout. As a result the bit 0 processing can starve all other softirqs.
>>
> May I use a percpu val to record the order of processing softirq, by the order
> val, when it is in ksoftirqd we can process the pending softirq in order. In the
> scenario you described above, before ksoftirqd runs, bit 0 gets raised again,
> ksoftirqd runs and handles bit 1 by the percpu val. just like a ring.

Yes, you need something to save information about the not-processed
bits. Keeping track of which bit to process next works, but whether
that's going to result in efficient and simple code is a different
question.

Thanks,

tglx

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