mapping interrupts to a particular cpu
Alfred Perlstein
alfred at freebsd.org
Fri Feb 2 00:39:50 UTC 2007
* John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org> [070201 14:54] wrote:
> On Wednesday 31 January 2007 22:33, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> > Through source inspection it appears that we don't have interrupts
> > running in the context of the actual interrupt handler unless they
> > are truly "FAST". (correct me if I'm wrong).
> >
> > That makes my decision a lot easier. I will just use bind_cpu.
> >
> > If so, I will just use bind_cpu.
>
> What is bind_cpu, sched_bind maybe?
>
> If you want to bind interrupts to CPUs, look at
> http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/patches/intr_bind.patch It's tested and works on
> i386 and amd64 and lets you bind interrupts to specific CPUs. There is a
> sysarch() to do it, so you can write a trivial userland app. It doesn't
> currently provide a way for userland to ask which interrupts are bound to
> which CPUs. I'm mostly waiting for folks to benchmark it to make sure it
> isn't a pessimization.
Even if it pessimizes in the general case, it may have specific
uses that could be helpful, and would avoid people duplicating
work in the future. I hope you plan on committing it soon.
>
> > * Alfred Perlstein <alfred at freebsd.org> [070131 19:18] wrote:
> > > [[jhb cc'd cause he's Mr Apic from what I understand.]]
> > >
> > > I'm trying to figure out pinning interrupts to a particular cpu.
> > >
> > > If it can be done, if it's worth it and how.
> > >
> > > Any generic pointers one could give to help me do this? I'd like to
> > > bind network interfaces to a particular cpu.
> > >
> > > I guess the questions boil down to:
> > >
> > > 1) Are we at the point that an interrupt for something such as an
> > > ethernet device actually runs under interrupt context?
> > > (or do we always switch to an ithread (for !FAST_INTR))
> > > (I already know about bind_cpu which can be done inside interrupt
> > > routine (I think?))
> > >
> > > Anyhow, if we have the actual interrupts running directly...
> > > 2) How can I bind an interrupt source to a cpu?
> > > 3) Is there a way to determine which cpu is best to wire an interrupt to?
> > >
> >
>
> --
> John Baldwin
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