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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Nitesh Narayan Lal <nitesh@redhat.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, intel-wired-lan@lists.osuosl.org,
	frederic@kernel.org, sassmann@redhat.com,
	jesse.brandeburg@intel.com, lihong.yang@intel.com,
	helgaas@kernel.org, jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com,
	jacob.e.keller@intel.com, jlelli@redhat.com, hch@infradead.org,
	bhelgaas@google.com, mike.marciniszyn@intel.com,
	dennis.dalessandro@intel.com, thomas.lendacky@amd.com,
	jiri@nvidia.com, mingo@redhat.com, juri.lelli@redhat.com,
	vincent.guittot@linaro.org, lgoncalv@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 4/4] PCI: Limit pci_alloc_irq_vectors() to housekeeping CPUs
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2020 15:41:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201020134128.GT2628@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <078e659e-d151-5bc2-a7dd-fe0070267cb3@redhat.com>

On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 09:00:01AM -0400, Nitesh Narayan Lal wrote:
> 
> On 10/20/20 3:30 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 11:00:05AM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> >>> So I think it is important to figure out what that driver really wants
> >>> in the nohz_full case. If it wants to retain N interrupts per CPU, and
> >>> only reduce the number of CPUs, the proposed interface is wrong.
> >> It wants N interrupts per non-isolated (AKA housekeeping) CPU.
> > Then the patch is wrong and the interface needs changing from @min_vecs,
> > @max_vecs to something that expresses the N*nr_cpus relation.
> 
> Reading Marcelo's comment again I think what is really expected is 1
> interrupt per non-isolated (housekeeping) CPU (not N interrupts).

Then what is the point of them asking for N*nr_cpus when there is no
isolation?

Either everybody wants 1 interrupts per CPU and we can do the clamp
unconditionally, in which case we should go fix this user, or they want
multiple per cpu and we should go fix the interface.

It cannot be both.

  reply	other threads:[~2020-10-20 13:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-28 18:35 [PATCH v4 0/4] isolation: limit msix vectors to housekeeping CPUs Nitesh Narayan Lal
2020-09-28 18:35 ` [PATCH v4 1/4] sched/isolation: API to get number of " Nitesh Narayan Lal
2020-09-28 18:35 ` [PATCH v4 2/4] sched/isolation: Extend nohz_full to isolate managed IRQs Nitesh Narayan Lal
2020-10-23 13:25   ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-10-23 13:29     ` Frederic Weisbecker
2020-10-23 13:57       ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2020-10-23 13:45     ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2020-09-28 18:35 ` [PATCH v4 3/4] i40e: Limit msix vectors to housekeeping CPUs Nitesh Narayan Lal
2020-09-28 18:35 ` [PATCH v4 4/4] PCI: Limit pci_alloc_irq_vectors() " Nitesh Narayan Lal
2020-09-28 21:59   ` Bjorn Helgaas
2020-09-29 17:46     ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-10-16 12:20   ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-10-18 18:14     ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2020-10-19 11:11       ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-10-19 14:00         ` Marcelo Tosatti
2020-10-19 14:25           ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2020-10-20  7:30           ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-10-20 13:00             ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2020-10-20 13:41               ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2020-10-20 14:39                 ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2020-10-22 17:47                   ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2020-10-23  8:58                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-10-23 13:10                       ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2020-10-23 21:00                         ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-10-26 13:35                           ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2020-10-26 13:57                             ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-10-26 17:30                           ` Marcelo Tosatti
2020-10-26 19:00                             ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-10-26 19:11                               ` Marcelo Tosatti
2020-10-26 19:21                               ` Jacob Keller
2020-10-26 20:11                                 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-10-26 21:11                                   ` Jacob Keller
2020-10-26 21:50                                     ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-10-26 22:13                                       ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-10-26 22:46                                         ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-10-26 22:52                                         ` Jacob Keller
2020-10-26 22:22                                       ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2020-10-26 22:49                                         ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-10-26 23:08                                           ` Jacob Keller
2020-10-27 14:28                                             ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-10-27 11:47                                         ` Marcelo Tosatti
2020-10-27 14:43                                           ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-10-19 14:21         ` Frederic Weisbecker
2020-10-20 14:16   ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-10-20 16:18     ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2020-10-20 18:07       ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-10-21 20:25         ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-10-21 21:04           ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2020-10-22  0:02           ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-10-22  0:27             ` Jacob Keller
2020-10-22  8:28             ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-10-22 12:28           ` Marcelo Tosatti
2020-10-22 22:39             ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-10-01 15:49 ` [PATCH v4 0/4] isolation: limit msix vectors " Frederic Weisbecker
2020-10-08 21:40   ` Nitesh Narayan Lal

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