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[net] doc: net: napi: Update documentation for napi_schedule_irqoff

Message ID 20240930153955.971657-1-sean.anderson@linux.dev (mailing list archive)
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Commit b63ad06ddddfe792f93df0c24adb66622bd7b8c9
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Series [net] doc: net: napi: Update documentation for napi_schedule_irqoff | expand

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Commit Message

Sean Anderson Sept. 30, 2024, 3:39 p.m. UTC
Since commit 8380c81d5c4f ("net: Treat __napi_schedule_irqoff() as
__napi_schedule() on PREEMPT_RT"), napi_schedule_irqoff will do the
right thing if IRQs are threaded. Therefore, there is no need to use
IRQF_NO_THREAD.

Signed-off-by: Sean Anderson <sean.anderson@linux.dev>
---
https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20240913150954.2287196-1-sean.anderson@linux.dev/

 Documentation/networking/napi.rst | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

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Bagas Sanjaya Oct. 1, 2024, 1:29 a.m. UTC | #1
On Mon, Sep 30, 2024 at 11:39:54AM -0400, Sean Anderson wrote:
>  napi_schedule_irqoff() is a variant of napi_schedule() which takes advantage
>  of guarantees given by being invoked in IRQ context (no need to
> -mask interrupts). Note that PREEMPT_RT forces all interrupts
> -to be threaded so the interrupt may need to be marked ``IRQF_NO_THREAD``
> -to avoid issues on real-time kernel configurations.
> +mask interrupts). napi_schedule_irqoff() will fall back to napi_schedule() if
> +IRQs are threaded (such as if ``PREEMPT_RT`` is enabled).

LGTM, thanks!

Reviewed-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Oct. 1, 2024, 6:52 a.m. UTC | #2
On 2024-09-30 11:39:54 [-0400], Sean Anderson wrote:
> Since commit 8380c81d5c4f ("net: Treat __napi_schedule_irqoff() as
> __napi_schedule() on PREEMPT_RT"), napi_schedule_irqoff will do the
> right thing if IRQs are threaded. Therefore, there is no need to use
> IRQF_NO_THREAD.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sean Anderson <sean.anderson@linux.dev>

Reviewed-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>

Thanks for docs update.

Sebastian
patchwork-bot+netdevbpf@kernel.org Oct. 3, 2024, 10:20 a.m. UTC | #3
Hello:

This patch was applied to netdev/net.git (main)
by Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>:

On Mon, 30 Sep 2024 11:39:54 -0400 you wrote:
> Since commit 8380c81d5c4f ("net: Treat __napi_schedule_irqoff() as
> __napi_schedule() on PREEMPT_RT"), napi_schedule_irqoff will do the
> right thing if IRQs are threaded. Therefore, there is no need to use
> IRQF_NO_THREAD.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sean Anderson <sean.anderson@linux.dev>
> 
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
  - [net] doc: net: napi: Update documentation for napi_schedule_irqoff
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/b63ad06ddddf

You are awesome, thank you!
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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/napi.rst b/Documentation/networking/napi.rst
index 7bf7b95c4f7a..dfa5d549be9c 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/napi.rst
+++ b/Documentation/networking/napi.rst
@@ -144,9 +144,8 @@  IRQ should only be unmasked after a successful call to napi_complete_done():
 
 napi_schedule_irqoff() is a variant of napi_schedule() which takes advantage
 of guarantees given by being invoked in IRQ context (no need to
-mask interrupts). Note that PREEMPT_RT forces all interrupts
-to be threaded so the interrupt may need to be marked ``IRQF_NO_THREAD``
-to avoid issues on real-time kernel configurations.
+mask interrupts). napi_schedule_irqoff() will fall back to napi_schedule() if
+IRQs are threaded (such as if ``PREEMPT_RT`` is enabled).
 
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