Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932249AbbHDIFR (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Aug 2015 04:05:17 -0400 Received: from smtp-out-194.synserver.de ([212.40.185.194]:1113 "EHLO smtp-out-194.synserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932121AbbHDIFJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Aug 2015 04:05:09 -0400 X-SynServer-TrustedSrc: 1 X-SynServer-AuthUser: lars@metafoo.de X-SynServer-PPID: 28154 Message-ID: <55C0722C.7080904@metafoo.de> Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2015 10:05:00 +0200 From: Lars-Peter Clausen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/31.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Shubhrajyoti Datta CC: Xander Huff , jic23@kernel.org, bigeasy@linutronix.de, knaack.h@gmx.de, Peter Meerwald , Michal Simek , =?windows-1252?Q?S=F6ren_Brink?= =?windows-1252?Q?mann?= , linux-iio@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, joe.hershberger@ni.com, joshc@ni.com, nathan.sullivan@ni.com, jaeden.amero@ni.com Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] iio: adc: xilinx-xadc: Push interrupts into threaded context References: <1437434050-32907-1-git-send-email-xander.huff@ni.com> <55B231DE.4080308@metafoo.de> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1776 Lines: 46 On 08/04/2015 07:34 AM, Shubhrajyoti Datta wrote: > On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 6:08 PM, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Sorry, but I don't think this patch has been sufficiently tested against a >> mainline kernel. The driver wont even probe the way it is right now. >> >> On 07/21/2015 01:14 AM, Xander Huff wrote: >>> >>> The driver currently registers a pair of irq handlers using >>> request_threaded_irq(), however the synchronization mechanism between the >>> hardirq and the threadedirq handler is a regular spinlock. >> >> >> If everything runs in threaded context we don't really need the spinlock >> anymore and can use the mutex throughout. > > that should be better from the performance point of view. > >> >>> >>> Unfortunately, this breaks PREEMPT_RT builds, where a spinlock can sleep, >>> and is thus not able to be acquired from a hardirq handler. This patch >>> gets >>> rid of the hardirq handler and pushes all interrupt handling into the >>> threaded context. >> >> >> We actually might as well run everything in the hardirq handler (which will >> be threaded in PREEMPT_RT). The reason why we have the threaded handler is >> because xadc_handle_event() used to sleep, but it doesn't do this anymore. > > The point is why have the hard irq. If we use hardirq then not mutex > can be used and spinlock will > be busy. Well there is no need to use a threaded IRQ. The interrupt handler is quite small and doesn't take too much time and doesn't have any delays or sleeps in it either. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/