Re: Can we conditionally force threading irq with primary and thread handler?

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Thu Dec 03 2015 - 17:34:15 EST


Yunhong,

On Thu, 3 Dec 2015, Yunhong Jiang wrote:

> Hi, Thomas
> On Commit 2a1d3ab8986d1b2 ("genirq: Handle force threading of irqs
> with primary and thread handler"), even if the caller of
> request_threaded_irq() provides a primary handler, that primary handler will
> be invoked in thread context. This may cause some latency issue for high
> real time requirement.
>
> I checked the discussion on https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/9/19/372 with
> Okuno and seems we need this change only if the irq is shared, otherwise, we
> can still use Okuno's mechanism, am I right? Do you think it's ok to force
> the primary handler for shared IRQ, otherwise, clear the IRQF_ONESHOT?

If you want to avoid that the primary handler is force threaded, then
you can indicate that with IRQF_NO_THREAD.

Thanks,

tglx


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