Re: [PATCH v3 0/6] IRQ affinity support in PLIC driver

From: Anup Patel
Date: Mon Dec 17 2018 - 04:38:14 EST


On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 1:32 PM Anup Patel <anup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> This patchset primarily adds IRQ affinity support in PLIC driver and
> other improvements.
>
> The patchset gives mechanism for explicitly routing external interrupts to
> particular CPUs using smp_affinity attribute of each Linux IRQs. Also, we
> can now use IRQ balancer from kernel-space or user-space.
>
> The patchset is tested on QEMU virt machine. It is based on Linux-4.20-rc4
> and can be found at riscv_plic_irq_affinity_v3 branch of:
> https://github.com/avpatel/linux.git
>
> Changes since v2:
> - Fixed incorrect address of enable registers using sizeof(u32) in PATCH1
> - Retained comment about need for locking in PATCH1
> - Split PATCH2 into two patches
> - Split PATCH3 into two patches
> - Minor fix in commit description of PATCH4
>
> Changes since v1:
> - Removed few whitspace changes from PATCH1
> - Keep use of DEFINE_PER_CPU() as it is
>
> Anup Patel (6):
> irqchip: sifive-plic: Pre-compute context hart base and enable base
> irqchip: sifive-plic: Add struct plic_hw for global PLIC HW details
> irqchip: sifive-plic: More flexible plic_irq_toggle()
> irqchip: sifive-plic: Add warning in plic_init() if handler already
> present
> irqchip: sifive-plic: Differentiate between PLIC handler and context
> irqchip: sifive-plic: Implement irq_set_affinity() for SMP host
>
> drivers/irqchip/irq-sifive-plic.c | 143 +++++++++++++++++++-----------
> 1 file changed, 90 insertions(+), 53 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.17.1
>

Hi All,

Any comments on this series?

Regards,
Anup