Re: Question on threaded handlers for managed interrupts

From: John Garry
Date: Fri May 21 2021 - 08:47:42 EST


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Hi Thomas,

On 23/04/2021 14:01, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
On Fri, Apr 23 2021 at 12:50, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
On Thu, Apr 22 2021 at 17:10, John Garry wrote:
OTOH, the way how you splitted the handling into hard/thread context
provides already the base for this.

The missing piece is infrastructure at the irq/scheduler core level to
handle this transparently.

I have some horrible ideas how to solve that, but I'm sure the scheduler
wizards can come up with a reasonable and generic solution.

JFYI, A performance-related fix was recently added in the block layer, and I can no longer reproduce this hang.

But I have no reason to say that it no longer exists.

Thanks,
John