On Sun, Mar 08, 2015 at 07:10:09PM -0400, Nicholas Krause wrote:
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>
> On March 8, 2015 6:30:47 PM EDT, Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote:
> >On Sun, 08 Mar 2015 22:49:00 +0100, Maxime Ripard said:
> >
> >> On Sun, Mar 08, 2015 at 10:06:23PM +0300, Matwey V. Kornilov wrote:
> >
> >> > I would like to somehow obtain local CPU core ID in the interrupt
> >> > handler function. I want to see how my interruptions are
> >distributed
> >> > among different CPU cores under different conditions.
> >
> >> > How should I do that?
> >>
> >> To answer strictly your question, like Nick said, smp_processor_id()
> >> will work fine.
> >>
> >> However, you can do exactly what you want be reading
> >/proc/interrupts,
> >> that already provide the informations you are looking for.
> >
> >Clarification: /proc/interrupts will give userspace that information.
> >It is *not* recommended you try to read it from kernel space, much less
> >from an interrupt context... :)
> >
> Does that matter through as all Matwey is interested in getting are
> the load balancing among multiple cores on a smp based system under
> various workloads . I wouldn't mind recommending to just read
> proc/interrupts expect for it only being refreshed every 3 seconds
> to my knowledge by default and therefore not valid for getting per
> second data. Also this file doesn't explain the kernel's decision to
> put what work on which core on a smp capable system during interrupt
> context , which may also interest Matwey too.
The kernel decision is:
- For SPIs, the default affinity is always on CPU0. That can be
changed if someone calls irq_set_affinity.
- For PPIs, the interrupt will be triggered on a particular
processor, without any intervention of the kernel.
Maxime
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