Re: [PATCH RT] fix IPI balancing for 4.14-rt

[Sebastian Andrzej Siewior]

On 2017-11-27 17:25:21 [-0500], Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Nov 2017 18:25:39 +0100
> Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>  
> > I cherry-picked commit 4bdced5c9a29 ("sched/rt: Simplify the IPI based
> > RT balancing logic") and while refreshing the queue I noticed that the
> > irq_work struct moved and added the fix below into the original patch
> > where the IRQ_WORK_HARD_IRQ flag was added.
> 
> Perhaps you should keep it as a separate patch. 4bdced5c9a29 is now in
> mainline. The next time you port to mainline, you may drop this fix,
> and cause the scheduling IPI to run in threaded context (which would be
> bad).
> 
> Having it as a separate patch, would remind us that it would need to be
> added to mainline in the future.

That patch in v4.14 rt-devel RT git tree has it as one commit. The patch
in RT queue has the IRQ_WORK_HARD_IRQ added in the patch where that flag
was introduced. For reference:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rt/linux-rt-devel.git/tree/patches/irqwork-push_most_work_into_softirq_context.patch?h=linux-4.14.y-rt-patches&id=657d8cd9f93891840fb1cd1666a8e590d19e72ba#n144

> Feel free to add to that that patch:
> 
> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> -- Steve

Sebastian