linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 7/8] pci: spread interrupt vectors in pci_alloc_irq

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Date:	Mon, 18 Apr 2016 10:30:18 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
cc:	linux-block@...r.kernel.org, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-nvme@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/8] pci: spread interrupt vectors in
 pci_alloc_irq_vectors

On Fri, 15 Apr 2016, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Set the affinity_mask before allocating vectors.  And for now we also
> need a little hack after allocation, hopefully someone smarter than me
> can move this into the core code.
> 
>  
> +	/* XXX: this should really move into the core IRQ allocation code.. */
> +	if (vecs > 1) {
> +		for (i = 0; i < vecs; i++)
> +			irq_program_affinity(irqs[i]);

No. We don't want to do that at allocation time. The problem here is that we
set the IRQF_NOBALANCING flag for the allocated interrupts and therefor the
affinity is not set from request_irq(). We'll fix it there.

Thanks,

	tglx