Hi Felipe,

On Tuesday 08 December 2015 07:15 PM, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> Sekhar Nori <nsek...@ti.com> writes:

>> +    /*
>> +     * A spurious IRQ can result if interrupt that triggered the
>> +     * sorting is no longer active during the sorting (10 INTC
>> +     * functional clock cycles after interrupt assertion). Or a
>> +     * change in interrupt mask affected the result during sorting
>> +     * time. There is no special handling required except ignoring
>> +     * the SIR register value just read and retrying.
>> +     * See section 6.2.5 of AM335x TRM Literature Number: SPRUH73K
>> +     *
>> +     * Many a times, a spurious interrupt situation has been fixed
>> +     * by adding a flush for the posted write acking the IRQ in
>> +     * the device driver. Typically, this is going be the device
>> +     * driver whose interrupt was handled just before the spurious
>> +     * IRQ occurred. Pay attention to those device drivers if you
>> +     * run into hitting the spurious IRQ condition below.
>> +     */
>> +    if ((irqnr & SPURIOUSIRQ_MASK) == SPURIOUSIRQ_MASK) {
> 
> sounds like unlikely() wouldn't hurt here.

I can add, but looks like it does not make a big difference. See below.

> 
>> +            pr_err_once("%s: spurious irq!\n", __func__);
>> +            irq_err_count++;
>> +            omap_ack_irq(NULL);
>> +            return;
>> +    }
>> +
>>      irqnr &= ACTIVEIRQ_MASK;
>> -    WARN_ONCE(!irqnr, "Spurious IRQ ?\n");
>>      handle_domain_irq(domain, irqnr, regs);
> 
> care to run kernel function profiler against omap_intc_handle_irq()
> before and after this patch ?

Before this patch I see average running time time of 34us. That
increases to 37.8us after this patch. With unlikely() the number I got
was 37.4us. So the benefit with unlikely() is in the noise range.

This was using AM335x EVM at 720 MHz.

Thanks,
Sekhar
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