Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] irqchip: sifive-plic: Implement irq_set_affinity() for SMP host

From: Atish Patra
Date: Fri Nov 30 2018 - 00:59:59 EST


On 11/27/18 2:04 AM, Anup Patel wrote:
Currently on SMP host, all CPUs take external interrupts routed via
PLIC. All CPUs will try to claim a given external interrupt but only
one of them will succeed while other CPUs would simply resume whatever
they were doing before. This means if we have N CPUs then for every
external interrupt N-1 CPUs will always fail to claim it and waste
their CPU time.

Instead of above, external interrupts should be taken by only one CPU
and we should have provision to explicity specify IRQ affinity from
s/explicity/explicitly

kernel-space or user-space.

This patch provides irq_set_affinity() implementation for PLIC driver.
It also updates irq_enable() such that PLIC interrupts are only enabled
for one of CPUs specified in IRQ affinity mask.

With this patch in-place, we can change IRQ affinity at any-time from
user-space using procfs.

Example:

/ # cat /proc/interrupts
CPU0 CPU1 CPU2 CPU3
8: 44 0 0 0 SiFive PLIC 8 virtio0
10: 48 0 0 0 SiFive PLIC 10 ttyS0
IPI0: 55 663 58 363 Rescheduling interrupts
IPI1: 0 1 3 16 Function call interrupts
/ #
/ #
/ # echo 4 > /proc/irq/10/smp_affinity
/ #
/ # cat /proc/interrupts
CPU0 CPU1 CPU2 CPU3
8: 45 0 0 0 SiFive PLIC 8 virtio0
10: 160 0 17 0 SiFive PLIC 10 ttyS0
IPI0: 68 693 77 410 Rescheduling interrupts
IPI1: 0 2 3 16 Function call interrupts

Signed-off-by: Anup Patel <anup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/irqchip/irq-sifive-plic.c | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 33 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/irqchip/irq-sifive-plic.c b/drivers/irqchip/irq-sifive-plic.c
index ffd4deaca057..fec7da3797fa 100644
--- a/drivers/irqchip/irq-sifive-plic.c
+++ b/drivers/irqchip/irq-sifive-plic.c
@@ -98,14 +98,42 @@ static void plic_irq_toggle(const struct cpumask *mask, int hwirq, int enable)
static void plic_irq_enable(struct irq_data *d)
{
- plic_irq_toggle(irq_data_get_affinity_mask(d), d->hwirq, 1);
+ unsigned int cpu = cpumask_any_and(irq_data_get_affinity_mask(d),
+ cpu_online_mask);
+ WARN_ON(cpu >= nr_cpu_ids);
+ plic_irq_toggle(cpumask_of(cpu), d->hwirq, 1);
}
static void plic_irq_disable(struct irq_data *d)
{
- plic_irq_toggle(irq_data_get_affinity_mask(d), d->hwirq, 0);
+ plic_irq_toggle(cpu_possible_mask, d->hwirq, 0);
}
+#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
+static int plic_set_affinity(struct irq_data *d, const struct cpumask *mask_val,
+ bool force)
+{
+ unsigned int cpu;
+
+ if (!force)
+ cpu = cpumask_any_and(mask_val, cpu_online_mask);
+ else
+ cpu = cpumask_first(mask_val);
+
+ if (cpu >= nr_cpu_ids)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ if (!irqd_irq_disabled(d)) {
+ plic_irq_toggle(cpu_possible_mask, d->hwirq, 0);
+ plic_irq_toggle(cpumask_of(cpu), d->hwirq, 1);

irq is disabled for a fraction of time for cpu as well.
You can use cpumask_andnot to avoid that.


Moreover, something is weird here. I tested the patch in Unleashed with a debug statement.

Here are the cpumask plic_set_affinity receives.

# echo 0 > /proc[ 280.810000] plic: plic_set_affinity: set affinity [0-1]
[ 280.810000] plic: plic_set_affinity: cpu = [0] irq = 4
# echo 1 > /proc[ 286.290000] plic: plic_set_affinity: set affinity [0]
[ 286.290000] plic: plic_set_affinity: cpu = [0] irq = 4
# echo 2 > /proc[ 292.130000] plic: plic_set_affinity: set affinity [1]
[ 292.130000] plic: plic_set_affinity: cpu = [1] irq = 4
# echo 3 > /proc[ 297.750000] plic: plic_set_affinity: set affinity [0-1]
[ 297.750000] plic: plic_set_affinity: cpu = [0] irq = 4

# echo 2 > /proc/irq/4/smp_affinity
[ 322.850000] plic: plic_set_affinity: set affinity [1]
[ 322.850000] plic: plic_set_affinity: cpu = [1] irq = 4

I have not figured out why it receive cpu mask for 0 & 3.
Not sure if logical cpu id to hart id mapping is responsible for other two case. I will continue to test tomorrow.

Regards,
Atish
+ }
+

+ irq_data_update_effective_affinity(d, cpumask_of(cpu));
+
+ return IRQ_SET_MASK_OK_DONE;
+}
+#endif
+
static struct irq_chip plic_chip = {
.name = "SiFive PLIC",
/*
@@ -114,6 +142,9 @@ static struct irq_chip plic_chip = {
*/
.irq_enable = plic_irq_enable,
.irq_disable = plic_irq_disable,
+#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
+ .irq_set_affinity = plic_set_affinity,
+#endif
};
static int plic_irqdomain_map(struct irq_domain *d, unsigned int irq,