Re: [PATCH] genirq: Wake IRQ threads immediately when changing affinity

From: Crystal Wood
Date: Fri Feb 16 2024 - 17:37:27 EST


On Mon, 2024-01-22 at 17:53 -0600, Crystal Wood wrote:
> This avoids a situation where the IRQs are being migrated away from
> an isolated cpu, but the migration does not happen until some arbitrary
> time in the future, causing an isolation disruption.
>
> Note that this is of the most benefit on systems where the IRQ affinity
> itself does not need to be deferred to the IRQ handler, but even where
> that's not the case, the total dirsuption will be less.
>
> Signed-off-by: Crystal Wood <crwood@xxxxxxxxxx>

Hi, do you have any thoughts on this patch?

..well, apart from the "dirsuption" typo I just noticed :-P

Thanks,
Crystal