On Sun, Jan 06, 2019 at 07:02:58PM +0530, G SatishKumar wrote:
> This patch adds, IRQ Work interrupts support to RISCV arch.
>
> This patch is based on the arm32 patch ARM 7872/1
> which ports cleanly.
>
> Done set of changes based on RISCV SMP process.
>
> commit bf18525fd793 ("ARM: 7872/1: Support arch_irq_work_raise()
> via self IPIs")
> Author: Stephen Boyd <sboyd at codeaurora.org>
> Date: Tue Oct 29 20:32:56 2013 +0100
>
> By default, IRQ work is run from the tick interrupt (see
> irq_work_run() in update_process_times()). When we're in full
> NOHZ mode, restarting the tick requires the use of IRQ work and
> if the only place we run IRQ work is in the tick interrupt we
> have an unbreakable cycle. Implement arch_irq_work_raise() via
> self IPIs to break this cycle and get the tick started again.
> Note that we implement this via IPIs which are only available on
> SMP builds. This shouldn't be a problem because full NOHZ is only
> supported on SMP builds anyway.
The commit logs here looks oddly indented. Also what workload did you
test this with?
