genirq: Allow disabling of softirq processing in irq thread context

The processing of softirqs in irq thread context is a performance gain
for the non-rt workloads of a system, but it's counterproductive for
interrupts which are explicitely related to the realtime
workload. Allow such interrupts to prevent softirq processing in their
thread context.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable-rt@vger.kernel.org

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/irq/settings.h b/kernel/irq/settings.h
index 1162f1030f18..0d2c381c2bdb 100644
--- a/kernel/irq/settings.h
+++ b/kernel/irq/settings.h
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ enum {
 	_IRQ_NO_BALANCING	= IRQ_NO_BALANCING,
 	_IRQ_NESTED_THREAD	= IRQ_NESTED_THREAD,
 	_IRQ_PER_CPU_DEVID	= IRQ_PER_CPU_DEVID,
+	_IRQ_NO_SOFTIRQ_CALL	= IRQ_NO_SOFTIRQ_CALL,
 	_IRQF_MODIFY_MASK	= IRQF_MODIFY_MASK,
 };
 
@@ -26,6 +27,7 @@ enum {
 #define IRQ_NOAUTOEN		GOT_YOU_MORON
 #define IRQ_NESTED_THREAD	GOT_YOU_MORON
 #define IRQ_PER_CPU_DEVID	GOT_YOU_MORON
+#define IRQ_NO_SOFTIRQ_CALL	GOT_YOU_MORON
 #undef IRQF_MODIFY_MASK
 #define IRQF_MODIFY_MASK	GOT_YOU_MORON
 
@@ -36,6 +38,16 @@ irq_settings_clr_and_set(struct irq_desc *desc, u32 clr, u32 set)
 	desc->status_use_accessors |= (set & _IRQF_MODIFY_MASK);
 }
 
+static inline bool irq_settings_no_softirq_call(struct irq_desc *desc)
+{
+	return desc->status_use_accessors & _IRQ_NO_SOFTIRQ_CALL;
+}
+
+static inline void irq_settings_set_no_softirq_call(struct irq_desc *desc)
+{
+	desc->status_use_accessors |= _IRQ_NO_SOFTIRQ_CALL;
+}
+
 static inline bool irq_settings_is_per_cpu(struct irq_desc *desc)
 {
 	return desc->status_use_accessors & _IRQ_PER_CPU;