nohz: Prevent tilegx network driver interrupts
authorChris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>
Fri, 10 Jul 2015 19:37:25 +0000 (15:37 -0400)
committerFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Wed, 29 Jul 2015 13:44:59 +0000 (15:44 +0200)
commit03f6199a359e460714b6bd08c10b566760f150a6
tree71adc3d1afe58a51f80df84152b969d4a6d36df1
parent2019e8a3024bd8fcadd57891a88c838849216a5f
nohz: Prevent tilegx network driver interrupts

Normally the tilegx networking shim sends irqs to all the cores
to distribute the load of processing incoming-packet interrupts,
so that you can get to multiple Gb's of traffic inbound.

However, in nohz_full mode we don't want to interrupt the
nohz_full cores by default, so we limit the set of cores we use
to only the online housekeeping cores.

To make client code easier to read, we introduce a new nohz_full
accessor, housekeeping_cpumask(), which returns a pointer to the
housekeeping_mask if nohz_full is enabled, and otherwise returns
the cpu_possible_mask.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
drivers/net/ethernet/tile/tilegx.c
include/linux/tick.h