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From: Nitesh Lal <nilal@redhat.com>
To: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"frederic@kernel.org" <frederic@kernel.org>,
	"juri.lelli@redhat.com" <juri.lelli@redhat.com>,
	Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
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	netdev@vger.kernel.org, chris.friesen@windriver.com
Subject: Re: [Patch v4 1/3] lib: Restrict cpumask_local_spread to houskeeping CPUs
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2021 09:10:40 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFki+LnbX6bJPh18iowxSsC=W8A3D5PXSN4xBab0Qbxm-JjBew@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210429184802.0000641e@intel.com>

On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 9:48 PM Jesse Brandeburg
<jesse.brandeburg@intel.com> wrote:
>
> Nitesh Lal wrote:
>
> > @Jesse do you think the Part-1 findings explain the behavior that you have
> > observed in the past?
> >
> > Also, let me know if there are any suggestions or experiments to try here.
>
> Wow Nitesh, nice work! That's quite a bit of spelunking you had to do
> there!
>
> Your results that show the older kernels with ranged affinity issues is
> consistent with what I remember from that time, and the original
> problem.

That's nice.

>
> I'm glad to see that a) Thomas fixed the kernel to even do better than
> ranged affinity masks, and that b) if you revert my patch, the new
> behavior is better and still maintains the fix from a).

Right, the interrupts are naturally spread now.

>
> For me this explains the whole picture and makes me feel comfortable
> with the patch that reverts the initial affinity mask (that also
> introduces a subtle bug with the reserved CPUs that I believe you've
> noted already).
>

Thank you for confirming!

--
Nitesh


  reply	other threads:[~2021-04-30 13:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-25 22:34 [PATCH v4 0/3] Preventing job distribution to isolated CPUs Nitesh Narayan Lal
2020-06-25 22:34 ` [Patch v4 1/3] lib: Restrict cpumask_local_spread to houskeeping CPUs Nitesh Narayan Lal
2020-06-29 16:11   ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2020-07-01  0:32     ` Andrew Morton
2020-07-01  0:47       ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2020-07-09  8:45   ` [tip: sched/core] " tip-bot2 for Alex Belits
2021-01-27 11:57   ` [Patch v4 1/3] " Robin Murphy
2021-01-27 12:19     ` Marcelo Tosatti
2021-01-27 12:36       ` Robin Murphy
2021-01-27 13:09         ` Marcelo Tosatti
2021-01-27 13:49           ` Robin Murphy
2021-01-27 14:16           ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2021-01-28 15:56           ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-01-28 16:33             ` Marcelo Tosatti
     [not found]             ` <02ac9d85-7ddd-96da-1252-4663feea7c9f@marvell.com>
2021-02-01 17:50               ` [EXT] " Marcelo Tosatti
2021-01-28 16:02       ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-01-28 16:59         ` Marcelo Tosatti
2021-01-28 17:35           ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2021-01-28 20:01           ` Thomas Gleixner
     [not found]             ` <d2a4dc97-a9ed-e0e7-3b9c-c56ae46f6608@redhat.com>
     [not found]               ` <20210129142356.GB40876@fuller.cnet>
2021-01-29 17:34                 ` [EXT] " Alex Belits
     [not found]                 ` <18584612-868c-0f88-5de2-dc93c8638816@redhat.com>
2021-02-05 19:56                   ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-02-04 18:15             ` Marcelo Tosatti
2021-02-04 18:47               ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2021-02-04 19:06                 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2021-02-04 19:17                   ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2021-02-05 22:23                     ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-02-05 22:26                       ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-02-05 23:02                       ` [tip: sched/urgent] Revert "lib: Restrict cpumask_local_spread to houskeeping CPUs" tip-bot2 for Thomas Gleixner
2021-02-07  0:43                       ` [Patch v4 1/3] lib: Restrict cpumask_local_spread to houskeeping CPUs Nitesh Narayan Lal
2021-02-11 15:55                         ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2021-03-04 18:15                           ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
     [not found]                             ` <faa8d84e-db67-7fbe-891e-f4987f106b20@marvell.com>
2021-03-04 23:23                               ` [EXT] " Nitesh Narayan Lal
2021-04-06 17:22                             ` Jesse Brandeburg
2021-04-07 15:18                               ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2021-04-08 18:49                                 ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2021-04-14 16:11                                 ` Jesse Brandeburg
2021-04-15 22:11                                   ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2021-04-29 21:44                                     ` Nitesh Lal
2021-04-30  1:48                                       ` Jesse Brandeburg
2021-04-30 13:10                                         ` Nitesh Lal [this message]
2021-04-30  7:10                                       ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-04-30 16:14                                         ` Nitesh Lal
2021-04-30 18:21                                           ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-04-30 21:07                                             ` Nitesh Lal
2021-05-01  2:21                                               ` Jesse Brandeburg
2021-05-03 13:15                                                 ` Nitesh Lal
2020-06-25 22:34 ` [Patch v4 2/3] PCI: Restrict probe functions to housekeeping CPUs Nitesh Narayan Lal
2020-07-09  8:45   ` [tip: sched/core] " tip-bot2 for Alex Belits
2020-06-25 22:34 ` [Patch v4 3/3] net: Restrict receive packets queuing " Nitesh Narayan Lal
2020-06-26 11:14   ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-06-26 17:20     ` David Miller
2020-07-09  8:45   ` [tip: sched/core] " tip-bot2 for Alex Belits

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