[PATCH] x86: kernel irq balance doesn't work

On i386, kernel irq balance doesn't work.

1) In function do_irq_balance, after kernel finds the min_loaded cpu but
   before calling set_pending_irq to really pin the selected_irq to the
   target cpu, kernel does a cpus_and with irq_affinity[selected_irq].
   Later on, when the irq is acked, kernel would calls
   move_native_irq=>desc->handler->set_affinity to change the irq affinity.
    However, every function pointed by
   hw_interrupt_type->set_affinity(unsigned int irq, cpumask_t cpumask)
   always changes irq_affinity[irq] to cpumask.  Next time when recalling
   do_irq_balance, it has to do cpu_ands again with
   irq_affinity[selected_irq], but irq_affinity[selected_irq] already
   becomes one cpu selected by the first irq balance.

2) Function balance_irq in file arch/i386/kernel/io_apic.c has the same
   issue.

[akpm@osdl.org: cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanmin <yanmin.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 20 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/io_apic.c b/arch/i386/kernel/io_apic.c
index d70f2ade5cde..a62df3e764c5 100644
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/io_apic.c
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/io_apic.c
@@ -267,7 +267,7 @@ static void set_ioapic_affinity_irq(unsigned int irq, cpumask_t cpumask)
 # include <linux/slab.h>                /* kmalloc() */
 # include <linux/timer.h>       /* time_after() */
  
-# ifdef CONFIG_BALANCED_IRQ_DEBUG
+#ifdef CONFIG_BALANCED_IRQ_DEBUG
 #  define TDprintk(x...) do { printk("<%ld:%s:%d>: ", jiffies, __FILE__, __LINE__); printk(x); } while (0)
 #  define Dprintk(x...) do { TDprintk(x); } while (0)
 # else
@@ -275,10 +275,15 @@ static void set_ioapic_affinity_irq(unsigned int irq, cpumask_t cpumask)
 #  define Dprintk(x...) 
 # endif
 
-
 #define IRQBALANCE_CHECK_ARCH -999
-static int irqbalance_disabled = IRQBALANCE_CHECK_ARCH;
-static int physical_balance = 0;
+#define MAX_BALANCED_IRQ_INTERVAL       (5*HZ)
+#define MIN_BALANCED_IRQ_INTERVAL       (HZ/2)
+#define BALANCED_IRQ_MORE_DELTA         (HZ/10)
+#define BALANCED_IRQ_LESS_DELTA         (HZ)
+
+static int irqbalance_disabled __read_mostly = IRQBALANCE_CHECK_ARCH;
+static int physical_balance __read_mostly;
+static long balanced_irq_interval __read_mostly = MAX_BALANCED_IRQ_INTERVAL;
 
 static struct irq_cpu_info {
         unsigned long * last_irq;
@@ -297,12 +302,14 @@ static struct irq_cpu_info {
 
 #define CPU_TO_PACKAGEINDEX(i) (first_cpu(cpu_sibling_map[i]))
 
-#define MAX_BALANCED_IRQ_INTERVAL       (5*HZ)
-#define MIN_BALANCED_IRQ_INTERVAL       (HZ/2)
-#define BALANCED_IRQ_MORE_DELTA         (HZ/10)
-#define BALANCED_IRQ_LESS_DELTA         (HZ)
+static cpumask_t balance_irq_affinity[NR_IRQS] = {
+        [0 ... NR_IRQS-1] = CPU_MASK_ALL
+};
 
-static long balanced_irq_interval = MAX_BALANCED_IRQ_INTERVAL;
+void set_balance_irq_affinity(unsigned int irq, cpumask_t mask)
+{
+        balance_irq_affinity[irq] = mask;
+}
 
 static unsigned long move(int curr_cpu, cpumask_t allowed_mask,
                         unsigned long now, int direction)
@@ -340,7 +347,7 @@ static inline void balance_irq(int cpu, int irq)
         if (irqbalance_disabled)
                 return; 
 
-        cpus_and(allowed_mask, cpu_online_map, irq_affinity[irq]);
+        cpus_and(allowed_mask, cpu_online_map, balance_irq_affinity[irq]);
         new_cpu = move(cpu, allowed_mask, now, 1);
         if (cpu != new_cpu) {
                 set_pending_irq(irq, cpumask_of_cpu(new_cpu));
@@ -529,7 +536,9 @@ tryanotherirq:
                 }
         }
 
-        cpus_and(allowed_mask, cpu_online_map, irq_affinity[selected_irq]);
+        cpus_and(allowed_mask,
+                cpu_online_map,
+                balance_irq_affinity[selected_irq]);
         target_cpu_mask = cpumask_of_cpu(min_loaded);
         cpus_and(tmp, target_cpu_mask, allowed_mask);