Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] dpaa2-eth: use napi_schedule to be compatible with PREEMPT_RT

[David Miller]

From: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon,  3 Aug 2020 23:10:08 +0300

> From: Jiafei Pan <Jiafei.Pan@xxxxxxx>
> 
> The driver calls napi_schedule_irqoff() from a context where, in RT,
> hardirqs are not disabled, since the IRQ handler is force-threaded.
> 
> In the call path of this function, __raise_softirq_irqoff() is modifying
> its per-CPU mask of pending softirqs that must be processed, using
> or_softirq_pending(). The or_softirq_pending() function is not atomic,
> but since interrupts are supposed to be disabled, nobody should be
> preempting it, and the operation should be safe.
> 
> Nonetheless, when running with hardirqs on, as in the PREEMPT_RT case,
> it isn't safe, and the pending softirqs mask can get corrupted,
> resulting in softirqs being lost and never processed.
> 
> To have common code that works with PREEMPT_RT and with mainline Linux,
> we can use plain napi_schedule() instead. The difference is that
> napi_schedule() (via __napi_schedule) also calls local_irq_save, which
> disables hardirqs if they aren't already. But, since they already are
> disabled in non-RT, this means that in practice we don't see any
> measurable difference in throughput or latency with this patch.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jiafei Pan <Jiafei.Pan@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@xxxxxxx>

Applied.