kernel_optimize_test/kernel/irq/Kconfig
Thomas Gleixner 8d32a307e4 genirq: Provide forced interrupt threading
Add a commandline parameter "threadirqs" which forces all interrupts except
those marked IRQF_NO_THREAD to run threaded. That's mostly a debug option to
allow retrieving better debug data from crashing interrupt handlers. If
"threadirqs" is not enabled on the kernel command line, then there is no
impact in the interrupt hotpath.

Architecture code needs to select CONFIG_IRQ_FORCED_THREADING after
marking the interrupts which cant be threaded IRQF_NO_THREAD. All
interrupts which have IRQF_TIMER set are implict marked
IRQF_NO_THREAD. Also all PER_CPU interrupts are excluded.

Forced threading hard interrupts also forces all soft interrupt
handling into thread context.

When enabled it might slow down things a bit, but for debugging problems in
interrupt code it's a reasonable penalty as it does not immediately
crash and burn the machine when an interrupt handler is buggy.

Some test results on a Core2Duo machine:

Cache cold run of:
 # time git grep irq_desc

      non-threaded       threaded
 real 1m18.741s          1m19.061s
 user 0m1.874s           0m1.757s
 sys  0m5.843s           0m5.427s

 # iperf -c server
non-threaded
[  3]  0.0-10.0 sec  1.09 GBytes   933 Mbits/sec
[  3]  0.0-10.0 sec  1.09 GBytes   934 Mbits/sec
[  3]  0.0-10.0 sec  1.09 GBytes   933 Mbits/sec
threaded
[  3]  0.0-10.0 sec  1.09 GBytes   939 Mbits/sec
[  3]  0.0-10.0 sec  1.09 GBytes   934 Mbits/sec
[  3]  0.0-10.0 sec  1.09 GBytes   937 Mbits/sec

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <20110223234956.772668648@linutronix.de>
2011-02-26 11:57:18 +01:00

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config HAVE_GENERIC_HARDIRQS
bool
if HAVE_GENERIC_HARDIRQS
menu "IRQ subsystem"
#
# Interrupt subsystem related configuration options
#
config GENERIC_HARDIRQS
def_bool y
# Select this to disable the deprecated stuff
config GENERIC_HARDIRQS_NO_DEPRECATED
bool
config GENERIC_HARDIRQS_NO_COMPAT
bool
# Options selectable by the architecture code
config HAVE_SPARSE_IRQ
bool
config GENERIC_IRQ_PROBE
bool
config GENERIC_IRQ_SHOW
bool
config GENERIC_PENDING_IRQ
bool
config AUTO_IRQ_AFFINITY
bool
config HARDIRQS_SW_RESEND
bool
config IRQ_PREFLOW_FASTEOI
bool
config IRQ_FORCED_THREADING
bool
config SPARSE_IRQ
bool "Support sparse irq numbering"
depends on HAVE_SPARSE_IRQ
---help---
Sparse irq numbering is useful for distro kernels that want
to define a high CONFIG_NR_CPUS value but still want to have
low kernel memory footprint on smaller machines.
( Sparse irqs can also be beneficial on NUMA boxes, as they spread
out the interrupt descriptors in a more NUMA-friendly way. )
If you don't know what to do here, say N.
endmenu
endif