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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Weiping Zhang <zhangweiping@didiglobal.com>,
	axboe@kernel.dk, tj@kernel.org, hch@lst.de, bvanassche@acm.org,
	keith.busch@intel.com, minwoo.im.dev@gmail.com,
	edmund.nadolski@intel.com
Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org, cgroups@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 4/5] genirq/affinity: allow driver's discontigous affinity set
Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2020 10:08:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <871rrevfmz.fsf@nanos.tec.linutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c044e71afa25fdf65ca9abd21f8a5032e1b424eb.1580211965.git.zhangweiping@didiglobal.com>

Weiping Zhang <zhangweiping@didiglobal.com> writes:

> nvme driver will add 4 sets for supporting NVMe weighted round robin,
> and some of these sets may be empty(depends on user configuration),
> so each particular set is assigned one static index for avoiding the
> management trouble, then the empty set will be been by
> irq_create_affinity_masks().

What's the point of an empty interrupt set in the first place? This does
not make sense and smells like a really bad hack.

Can you please explain in detail why this is required and why it
actually makes sense?

Thanks,

        tglx

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-02-01  9:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-28 11:51 [PATCH v4 0/5] Add support Weighted Round Robin for blkcg and nvme Weiping Zhang
2020-01-28 11:52 ` [PATCH v4 1/5] block: add weighted round robin for blkcgroup Weiping Zhang
2020-01-28 11:53 ` [PATCH v4 2/5] nvme: add get_ams for nvme_ctrl_ops Weiping Zhang
2020-01-28 11:53 ` [PATCH v4 3/5] nvme-pci: rename module parameter write_queues to read_queues Weiping Zhang
2020-01-28 11:53 ` [PATCH v4 4/5] genirq/affinity: allow driver's discontigous affinity set Weiping Zhang
2020-02-01  9:08   ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2020-02-04  3:11     ` Weiping Zhang
2020-01-28 11:53 ` [PATCH v4 5/5] nvme: add support weighted round robin queue Weiping Zhang

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