Re: [PATCH 4/9] softirq: Allow early break

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On 2023/5/5 20:10, Eric Dumazet wrote:
On Fri, May 5, 2023 at 1:24 PM Liu Jian <liujian56@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Allow terminating the softirq processing loop without finishing the
vectors.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Liu Jian <liujian56@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
  kernel/softirq.c | 16 ++++++++++------
  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/softirq.c b/kernel/softirq.c
index 48a81d8ae49a..e2cad5d108c8 100644
--- a/kernel/softirq.c
+++ b/kernel/softirq.c
@@ -582,6 +582,9 @@ asmlinkage __visible void __softirq_entry __do_softirq(void)
                                prev_count, preempt_count());
                         preempt_count_set(prev_count);
                 }
+
+               if (pending && __softirq_needs_break(start))
+                       break;

This means that some softirq may starve, because

for_each_set_bit(vec_nr, &pending, NR_SOFTIRQS)

Always iterate using the same order (of bits)


Yes, we need to record the softirq that is not executed and continue next time. I will fix it in next version.
Thanks.


         }

         if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT) &&
@@ -590,13 +593,14 @@ asmlinkage __visible void __softirq_entry __do_softirq(void)

         local_irq_disable();

-       pending = local_softirq_pending();
-       if (pending) {
-               if (!__softirq_needs_break(start) && --max_restart)
-                       goto restart;
+       if (pending)
+               or_softirq_pending(pending);
+       else if ((pending = local_softirq_pending()) &&
+                !__softirq_needs_break(start) &&
+                --max_restart)
+               goto restart;

-               wakeup_softirqd();
-       }
+       wakeup_softirqd();

         account_softirq_exit(current);
         lockdep_softirq_end(in_hardirq);
--
2.34.1




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