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Currently on SMP host, all CPUs take external interrupts routed via
PLIC. All CPUs will try to claim a given external interrupt but only
one of them will succeed while other CPUs would simply resume whatever
they were doing before. This means if we have N CPUs then for every
external interrupt N-1 CPUs will always fail to claim it and waste
their CPU time.
Instead of above, external interrupts should be taken by only one CPU
and we should have provision to explicitly specify IRQ affinity from
kernel-space or user-space.
This patch provides irq_set_affinity() implementation for PLIC driver.
It also updates irq_enable() such that PLIC interrupts are only enabled
for one of CPUs specified in IRQ affinity mask.
With this patch in-place, we can change IRQ affinity at any-time from
user-space using procfs.
Example:
/ # cat /proc/interrupts
CPU0 CPU1 CPU2 CPU3
8: 44 0 0 0 SiFive PLIC 8 virtio0
10: 48 0 0 0 SiFive PLIC 10 ttyS0
IPI0: 55 663 58 363 Rescheduling interrupts
IPI1: 0 1 3 16 Function call interrupts
/ #
/ #
/ # echo 4 > /proc/irq/10/smp_affinity
/ #
/ # cat /proc/interrupts
CPU0 CPU1 CPU2 CPU3
8: 45 0 0 0 SiFive PLIC 8 virtio0
10: 160 0 17 0 SiFive PLIC 10 ttyS0
IPI0: 68 693 77 410 Rescheduling interrupts
IPI1: 0 2 3 16 Function call interrupts
Signed-off-by: Anup Patel <anup@brainfault.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
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