Re: [PATCH] irq_work: Avoid unnecessary "IRQ work" interrupts

[Sebastian Andrzej Siewior]

On 2024-08-27 15:45:42 [+0000], Brandt, Oliver - Lenze wrote:
> 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.

Good catch I think.

> 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);

Looking at this I *think* rt_lazy_work was needed earlier due to
different code but not anymore. Couldn't you just remove rt_lazy_work
and set lazy_work in the RT path? That should work.

>  }
>  

Sebastian