From 54514a70adefe356afe854e2d3912d46668068e6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "David S. Miller" Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 22:15:57 -0700 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe --- include/linux/interrupt.h | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/linux/interrupt.h') 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 #include #include +#include +#include #include #include #include @@ -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. -- cgit v1.2.3