Re: [PATCH] x86: Add irq spillover warning

[Thomas Gleixner]

Neil,

On Tue, 16 Jul 2019, Neil Horman wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 05:57:31PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > On Tue, 16 Jul 2019, Neil Horman wrote:
> > > If a cpu has more than this number of interrupts affined to it, they
> > > will spill over to other cpus, which potentially may be outside of their
> > > affinity mask.
> > 
> > Spill over?
> > 
> > The kernel decides to pick a vector on a CPU outside of the affinity when
> > it runs out of vectors on the CPUs in the affinity mask.
> > 
> Yes.
> 
> > Please explain issues technically correct.
> > 
> I don't know what you mean by this.  I explained it above, and you clearly
> understood it.

It took me a while to grok it. Simply because I first thought it's some
hardware issue. And of course after confusion settled I knew what it is,
but just because I know that code like the back of my hand.

> > > Given that this might cause unexpected behavior on
> > > performance sensitive systems, warn the user should this condition occur
> > > so that corrective action can be taken
> > 
> > > @@ -244,6 +244,14 @@ __visible unsigned int __irq_entry do_IRQ(struct pt_regs *regs)
> > 
> > Why on earth warn in the interrupt delivery hotpath? Just because it's the
> > place which really needs extra instructions and extra cache lines on
> > performance sensitive systems, right?
> > 
> Because theres already a check of the same variety in do_IRQ, but if the
> information is available outside the hotpath, I was unaware, and am happy to
> update this patch to refelct that.

Which check are you referring to?

Thanks,

	tglx