Re: [PATCH v4 0/5] IRQ affinity support in PLIC driver

From: Anup Patel
Date: Tue Jan 08 2019 - 07:14:21 EST


On Thu, Dec 27, 2018 at 4:48 PM Anup Patel <anup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> This patchset primarily adds IRQ affinity support in PLIC driver and
> other improvements.
>
> It gives mechanism for explicitly route 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
> and can be found at riscv_plic_irq_affinity_v4 branch of:
> https://github.com/avpatel/linux.git
>
> Changes since v3:
> - Dropped PATCH2
> - Added PATCH to not inline plic_toggle() and plic_irq_toggle()
> - Moved PATCH3 changes to PATCH6
> - Used WARN_ON_ONCE() instead of WARN_ON() in PATCH5
>
> 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 (5):
> irqchip: sifive-plic: Pre-compute context hart base and enable base
> irqchip: sifive-plic: Don't inline plic_toggle() and 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 | 110 +++++++++++++++++++-----------
> 1 file changed, 71 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.17.1
>

Hi All,

Any comments on this series??

Regards,
Anup