This patch cleans up the softirq in hardirq change. The hard irq threads pin themselves to one of the CPUs that the IRQ affinity is on.
This patch cleans up this by only updating the cpu affinity, if the cpu that the thread is pinned on is no longer part of the IRQ affinity. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: linux-2.6-rt-test/kernel/irq/manage.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6-rt-test.orig/kernel/irq/manage.c +++ linux-2.6-rt-test/kernel/irq/manage.c @@ -762,13 +762,15 @@ static int do_irqd(void * __desc) #ifdef CONFIG_SMP cpumask_t cpus_allowed, mask; + int pinned_cpu; cpus_allowed = desc->affinity; /* * Restrict it to one cpu so we avoid being migrated inside of * do_softirq_from_hardirq() */ - mask = cpumask_of_cpu(first_cpu(desc->affinity)); + pinned_cpu = first_cpu(desc->affinity); + mask = cpumask_of_cpu(pinned_cpu); set_cpus_allowed(current, mask); #endif current->flags |= PF_NOFREEZE | PF_HARDIRQ; @@ -793,14 +795,15 @@ static int do_irqd(void * __desc) /* * Did IRQ affinities change? */ - if (!cpus_equal(cpus_allowed, desc->affinity)) { + if (!cpu_isset(pinned_cpu, desc->affinity)) { cpus_allowed = desc->affinity; /* * Restrict it to one cpu so we avoid being * migrated inside of * do_softirq_from_hardirq() */ - mask = cpumask_of_cpu(first_cpu(desc->affinity)); + pinned_cpu = first_cpu(desc->affinity); + mask = cpumask_of_cpu(pinned_cpu); set_cpus_allowed(current, mask); } #endif - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/