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| author | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2008-09-23 22:15:57 -0700 |
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| committer | Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> | 2008-10-17 08:46:56 +0200 |
| commit | 54514a70adefe356afe854e2d3912d46668068e6 (patch) | |
| tree | e2b08f2c10ff427447fdc40e96555fc2f22549e1 /include/linux/interrupt.h | |
| parent | 2e532d68a2b3e2aa6b19731501222069735c741c (diff) | |
softirq: Add support for triggering softirq work on softirqs.
This is basically a genericization of Jens Axboe's block layer
remote softirq changes.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/interrupt.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/interrupt.h | 21 |
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/interrupt.h b/include/linux/interrupt.h index 54b3623434e..35a61dc60d5 100644 --- a/include/linux/interrupt.h +++ b/include/linux/interrupt.h @@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ #include <linux/hardirq.h> #include <linux/sched.h> #include <linux/irqflags.h> +#include <linux/smp.h> +#include <linux/percpu.h> #include <asm/atomic.h> #include <asm/ptrace.h> #include <asm/system.h> @@ -273,6 +275,25 @@ extern void softirq_init(void); extern void raise_softirq_irqoff(unsigned int nr); extern void raise_softirq(unsigned int nr); +/* This is the worklist that queues up per-cpu softirq work. + * + * send_remote_sendirq() adds work to these lists, and + * the softirq handler itself dequeues from them. The queues + * are protected by disabling local cpu interrupts and they must + * only be accessed by the local cpu that they are for. + */ +DECLARE_PER_CPU(struct list_head [NR_SOFTIRQS], softirq_work_list); + +/* Try to send a softirq to a remote cpu. If this cannot be done, the + * work will be queued to the local cpu. + */ +extern void send_remote_softirq(struct call_single_data *cp, int cpu, int softirq); + +/* Like send_remote_softirq(), but the caller must disable local cpu interrupts + * and compute the current cpu, passed in as 'this_cpu'. + */ +extern void __send_remote_softirq(struct call_single_data *cp, int cpu, + int this_cpu, int softirq); /* Tasklets --- multithreaded analogue of BHs. |