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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>,
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	Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
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	Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH tip:irq/core v1] genirq: remove auto-set of the mask when setting the hint
Date: Mon, 17 May 2021 21:43:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <871ra5f8n9.ffs@nanos.tec.linutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874kf1faac.ffs@nanos.tec.linutronix.de>

On Mon, May 17 2021 at 21:08, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Mon, May 17 2021 at 19:50, Robin Murphy wrote:
>> some of the callers in other subsystems appear to *expect* it to set
>> the underlying affinity as well, but whether any of those added within
>> the last 6 years represent a functional dependency rather than just a
>> performance concern I don't know.
>
> Sigh. Let me do yet another tree wide audit...

It's clearly only the perf muck which has a functional dependency.

None of the other usage sites has IRQF_NOBALANCING set which clearly
makes this a hint because user space can freely muck with the affinity.

Thanks,

        tglx




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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: intel-wired-lan@osuosl.org
Subject: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH tip:irq/core v1] genirq: remove auto-set of the mask when setting the hint
Date: Mon, 17 May 2021 21:43:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <871ra5f8n9.ffs@nanos.tec.linutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874kf1faac.ffs@nanos.tec.linutronix.de>

On Mon, May 17 2021 at 21:08, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Mon, May 17 2021 at 19:50, Robin Murphy wrote:
>> some of the callers in other subsystems appear to *expect* it to set
>> the underlying affinity as well, but whether any of those added within
>> the last 6 years represent a functional dependency rather than just a
>> performance concern I don't know.
>
> Sigh. Let me do yet another tree wide audit...

It's clearly only the perf muck which has a functional dependency.

None of the other usage sites has IRQF_NOBALANCING set which clearly
makes this a hint because user space can freely muck with the affinity.

Thanks,

        tglx




  reply	other threads:[~2021-05-17 19:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-01  2:18 [PATCH tip:irq/core v1] genirq: remove auto-set of the mask when setting the hint Jesse Brandeburg
2021-05-01  2:18 ` [Intel-wired-lan] " Jesse Brandeburg
2021-05-04 12:15 ` Robin Murphy
2021-05-04 12:15   ` [Intel-wired-lan] " Robin Murphy
2021-05-04 14:29   ` Nitesh Lal
2021-05-04 14:29     ` [Intel-wired-lan] " Nitesh Lal
2021-05-04 16:23   ` Jesse Brandeburg
2021-05-04 16:23     ` [Intel-wired-lan] " Jesse Brandeburg
2021-05-17 16:57     ` Nitesh Lal
2021-05-17 16:57       ` [Intel-wired-lan] " Nitesh Lal
2021-05-17 17:26       ` Robin Murphy
2021-05-17 17:26         ` [Intel-wired-lan] " Robin Murphy
2021-05-17 18:08         ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-05-17 18:08           ` [Intel-wired-lan] " Thomas Gleixner
2021-05-17 18:50           ` Robin Murphy
2021-05-17 18:50             ` [Intel-wired-lan] " Robin Murphy
2021-05-17 19:08             ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-05-17 19:08               ` [Intel-wired-lan] " Thomas Gleixner
2021-05-17 19:43               ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2021-05-17 19:43                 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-05-17 20:18               ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-05-17 20:18                 ` [Intel-wired-lan] " Thomas Gleixner
2021-05-17 18:21         ` Nitesh Lal
2021-05-17 18:21           ` [Intel-wired-lan] " Nitesh Lal
2021-05-17 19:47           ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-05-17 19:47             ` [Intel-wired-lan] " Thomas Gleixner
2021-05-17 21:13             ` Nitesh Lal
2021-05-17 21:13               ` [Intel-wired-lan] " Nitesh Lal
2021-05-17 20:48     ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-05-17 20:48       ` [Intel-wired-lan] " Thomas Gleixner
2021-05-17 22:44       ` Nitesh Lal
2021-05-17 22:44         ` [Intel-wired-lan] " Nitesh Lal
2021-05-18  0:03         ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-05-18  0:03           ` [Intel-wired-lan] " Thomas Gleixner
2021-05-18  0:23           ` Nitesh Lal
2021-05-18  0:23             ` [Intel-wired-lan] " Nitesh Lal
2021-05-20 21:57             ` Nitesh Lal
2021-05-20 21:57               ` [Intel-wired-lan] " Nitesh Lal
2021-05-21  0:03               ` Nitesh Lal
2021-05-21  0:03                 ` [Intel-wired-lan] " Nitesh Lal
2021-05-21 11:56                 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-05-21 11:56                   ` [Intel-wired-lan] " Thomas Gleixner
2021-05-21 12:03                   ` [PATCH] genirq: Provide new interfaces for affinity hints Thomas Gleixner
2021-05-21 12:03                     ` [Intel-wired-lan] " Thomas Gleixner
2021-05-21 15:45                     ` Lijun Pan
2021-05-21 15:45                       ` [Intel-wired-lan] " Lijun Pan
2021-05-21 21:45                       ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-05-21 21:45                         ` [Intel-wired-lan] " Thomas Gleixner
2021-05-21 16:13                     ` Nitesh Lal
2021-05-21 16:13                       ` [Intel-wired-lan] " Nitesh Lal
2021-05-21 21:48                       ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-05-21 21:48                         ` [Intel-wired-lan] " Thomas Gleixner
2021-06-04 20:35                         ` Nitesh Lal
2021-06-04 20:35                           ` [Intel-wired-lan] " Nitesh Lal
2021-05-27 10:03                     ` Shung-Hsi Yu
2021-05-27 10:03                       ` [Intel-wired-lan] " Shung-Hsi Yu
2021-05-27 10:21                       ` Shung-Hsi Yu
2021-05-27 10:21                         ` [Intel-wired-lan] " Shung-Hsi Yu
2021-05-27 13:06                       ` Nitesh Lal
2021-05-27 13:06                         ` [Intel-wired-lan] " Nitesh Lal
2021-05-28  7:20                         ` Shung-Hsi Yu
2021-05-28  7:20                           ` [Intel-wired-lan] " Shung-Hsi Yu
2021-06-07 17:00                     ` Nitesh Lal
2021-06-07 17:00                       ` [Intel-wired-lan] " Nitesh Lal
2021-06-14 16:12                       ` Nitesh Lal
2021-06-14 16:12                         ` [Intel-wired-lan] " Nitesh Lal
2021-05-21 13:46                   ` [PATCH tip:irq/core v1] genirq: remove auto-set of the mask when setting the hint Nitesh Lal
2021-05-21 13:46                     ` [Intel-wired-lan] " Nitesh Lal
2021-05-21 15:15                     ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-05-21 15:15                       ` [Intel-wired-lan] " Thomas Gleixner
2021-12-10 19:54 ` [tip: irq/core] genirq: Provide new interfaces for affinity hints tip-bot2 for Thomas Gleixner

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