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From: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org>, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
	Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>,
	linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org, Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>,
	linux-block@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 1/5] genirq/affinity: don't mark 'affd' as const
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2019 14:31:49 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190213213149.GB8027@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.21.1902132112590.1659@nanos.tec.linutronix.de>

On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 09:56:36PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Feb 2019, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 06:50:37PM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> > > We have to ask driver to re-caculate set vectors after the whole IRQ
> > > vectors are allocated later, and the result needs to be stored in 'affd'.
> > > Also both the two interfaces are core APIs, which should be trusted.
> > 
> > s/re-caculate/recalculate/
> > s/stored in 'affd'/stored in '*affd'/
> > s/both the two/both/
> > 
> > This is a little confusing because you're talking about both "IRQ
> > vectors" and these other "set vectors", which I think are different
> > things.  I assume the "set vectors" are cpumasks showing the affinity
> > of the IRQ vectors with some CPUs?
> 
> I think we should drop the whole vector wording completely.
> 
> The driver does not care about vectors, it only cares about a block of
> interrupt numbers. These numbers are kernel managed and the interrupts just
> happen to have a CPU vector assigned at some point. Depending on the CPU
> architecture the underlying mechanism might not even be named vector.

Perhaps longer term we could move affinity mask creation from the irq
subsystem into a more generic library. Interrupts aren't the only
resource that want to spread across CPUs. For example, blk-mq has it's
own implementation to for polled queues, so I think a non-irq specific
implementation would be a nice addition to the kernel lib.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-02-13 21:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-02-13 10:50 [PATCH V3 0/5] genirq/affinity: add .calc_sets for improving IRQ allocation & spread Ming Lei
2019-02-13 10:50 ` [PATCH V3 1/5] genirq/affinity: don't mark 'affd' as const Ming Lei
2019-02-13 15:04   ` Bjorn Helgaas
2019-02-13 20:56     ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-02-13 21:31       ` Keith Busch [this message]
2019-02-13 21:41         ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-02-13 22:37           ` Keith Busch
2019-02-14  8:50             ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-02-14 13:04               ` 陈华才
2019-02-14 13:31                 ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-02-19  0:42                   ` 陈华才
2019-02-19  6:19                     ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-02-19 16:12                     ` Keith Busch
2019-02-13 10:50 ` [PATCH V3 2/5] genirq/affinity: store irq set vectors in 'struct irq_affinity' Ming Lei
2019-02-13 15:07   ` Bjorn Helgaas
2019-02-13 10:50 ` [PATCH V3 3/5] genirq/affinity: add new callback for caculating set vectors Ming Lei
2019-02-13 15:11   ` Bjorn Helgaas
2019-02-13 20:58     ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-02-13 10:50 ` [PATCH V3 4/5] nvme-pci: avoid irq allocation retrying via .calc_sets Ming Lei
2019-02-13 15:13   ` Bjorn Helgaas
2019-02-13 21:26     ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-02-13 10:50 ` [PATCH V3 5/5] genirq/affinity: Document .calc_sets as required in case of multiple sets Ming Lei
2019-02-13 15:16   ` Bjorn Helgaas
2019-02-13 14:36 ` [PATCH V3 0/5] genirq/affinity: add .calc_sets for improving IRQ allocation & spread Jens Axboe

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