irq: Optimize call to softirq on hardirq exit
authorFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Tue, 24 Sep 2013 14:39:41 +0000 (16:39 +0200)
committerFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Tue, 1 Oct 2013 10:53:25 +0000 (12:53 +0200)
commitbe6e1016440860fc4ec098b2d0aed3d0397b5d6e
tree6de1ac73642c9c54e7207c5b4fc3e751d20a1341
parent7d65f4a6553203da6a22097821d151fbbe7e4956
irq: Optimize call to softirq on hardirq exit

Before processing softirqs on hardirq exit, we already
do the check for pending softirqs while hardirqs are
guaranteed to be disabled.

So we can take a shortcut and safely jump to the arch
specific implementation directly.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@au1.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@au1.ibm.com>
Cc: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: James E.J. Bottomley <jejb@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
kernel/softirq.c