[PATCH] irq_work: Avoid unnecessary "IRQ work" interrupts
From: Brandt, Oliver - Lenze
Date: Tue Aug 27 2024 - 11:45:59 EST
It was noticed that newer kernels (>= 6.1) raises a lot of "IRQ work"
interrupts where older ones (<= 5.10) haven't used this at all on our
system.
Root cause seems to be commit b4c6f86ec2f6 ('irq_work: Handle some
irq_work in a per-CPU thread on PREEMPT_RT'). This commit tries to avoid
calling irq_work callbacks from hardirq context as much as possible.
Therefore interrupts marked as IRQ_WORK_LAZY and (on PREEMT_RT) interrupts
not marked as IRQ_WORK_HARD_IRQ should be handled from an per-CPU thread.
Running the remaining interrupts from hardirq context is triggered using
irq_work_raise(). But on PREEMPT_RT irq_work_raise() will be called for
all interrupts not marked as IRQ_WORK_LAZY which results in unnecessary
"IRQ work" interrupts.
Fixes: b4c6f86ec2f6 ('irq_work: Handle some irq_work in a per-CPU thread on PREEMPT_RT')
Signed-off-by: Oliver Brandt <oliver.brandt@xxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/irq_work.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/kernel/irq_work.c b/kernel/irq_work.c
index 2f4fb336dda1..df08b7dde7d5 100644
--- a/kernel/irq_work.c
+++ b/kernel/irq_work.c
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ static void __irq_work_queue_local(struct irq_work *work)
return;
/* If the work is "lazy", handle it from next tick if any */
- if (!lazy_work || tick_nohz_tick_stopped())
+ if (!(lazy_work || rt_lazy_work) || tick_nohz_tick_stopped())
irq_work_raise(work);
}
--
2.46.0