From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-7.1 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIMWL_WL_HIGH, DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA12CC2D0E2 for ; Tue, 22 Sep 2020 20:44:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 563362376F for ; Tue, 22 Sep 2020 20:44:05 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1600807445; bh=o/A+74sXpvNL4tx92j94WhBZbCGLWsBUOQCxdXNtXtI=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:List-ID:From; b=ImMdTZgxzQkkNcBddxiVqdJlC5xQyvQReqGNsq+Tl2XaeGrecusQTAVtmEBqzdlma CEPtYuWz66hLCr8Pr5Ko6JaqxZGIt/tb9cqog/r+AzbZYtAY6W0ZqrkGXrIpbIlx82 sJGVK+qLZjrDAHSj4McyHIWoceVHpCOMW6YN28EA= Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726629AbgIVUoE (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Sep 2020 16:44:04 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:33864 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726550AbgIVUoE (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Sep 2020 16:44:04 -0400 Received: from localhost (lfbn-ncy-1-588-162.w81-51.abo.wanadoo.fr [81.51.203.162]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 713742220D; Tue, 22 Sep 2020 20:44:03 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1600807443; bh=o/A+74sXpvNL4tx92j94WhBZbCGLWsBUOQCxdXNtXtI=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=RsG9FO4Tn1qmEAYSZiAQdWycz+XJr7+Km3JimdrKx+1eeq4nRkdMnFOQS0YmIQEzZ klOSRI+FbarzK3AG2suYbSyDtQrmq/PUbxwitW6QK5Gt0hZF+KWCOJChoU1N4JEfQz KxFRtROaCRNiFlBKr8VPTr2uOqIdKqB9Kaz0n/sk= Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2020 22:44:01 +0200 From: Frederic Weisbecker To: Nitesh Narayan Lal Cc: bhelgaas@google.com, Jesse Brandeburg , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, mtosatti@redhat.com, sassmann@redhat.com, jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com, jacob.e.keller@intel.com, jlelli@redhat.com, hch@infradead.org, mike.marciniszyn@intel.com, dennis.dalessandro@intel.com, thomas.lendacky@amd.com, jerinj@marvell.com, mathias.nyman@intel.com, jiri@nvidia.com Subject: Re: [RFC][Patch v1 2/3] i40e: limit msix vectors based on housekeeping CPUs Message-ID: <20200922204400.GC5217@lenoir> References: <20200909150818.313699-1-nitesh@redhat.com> <20200909150818.313699-3-nitesh@redhat.com> <20200917112359.00006e10@intel.com> <20200921225834.GA30521@lenoir> <65513ee8-4678-1f96-1850-0e13dbf1810c@redhat.com> <20200922095440.GA5217@lenoir> <1b7fba6f-85c3-50d6-a951-78db1ccfd04a@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1b7fba6f-85c3-50d6-a951-78db1ccfd04a@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.4 (2018-02-28) Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-pci@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 09:34:02AM -0400, Nitesh Narayan Lal wrote: > On 9/22/20 5:54 AM, Frederic Weisbecker wrote: > > But I don't also want to push toward a complicated solution to handle CPU hotplug > > if there is no actual problem to solve there. > > Sure, even I am not particularly sure about the hotplug scenarios. Surely when isolation is something that will be configurable through cpuset, it will become interesting. For now it's probably not worth adding hundreds lines of code if nobody steps into such issue yet. What is probably more worthy for now is some piece of code to consolidate the allocation of those MSI vectors on top of the number of housekeeping CPUs. Thanks.