linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] genirq/affinity: fix node generation from cpumask

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Date:   Thu, 15 Dec 2016 23:34:21 +1100
From:   Balbir Singh <bsingharora@...il.com>
To:     "Guilherme G. Piccoli" <gpiccoli@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        tglx@...utronix.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-pci@...r.kernel.org, hch@....de,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, gabriel@...sman.be
Subject: Re: [PATCH] genirq/affinity: fix node generation from cpumask



On 15/12/16 05:01, Guilherme G. Piccoli wrote:
> Commit 34c3d9819fda ("genirq/affinity: Provide smarter irq spreading
> infrastructure") introduced a better IRQ spreading mechanism, taking
> account of the available NUMA nodes in the machine.
> 
> Problem is that the algorithm of retrieving the nodemask iterates
> "linearly" based on the number of online nodes - some architectures
> present non-linear node distribution among the nodemask, like PowerPC.
> If this is the case, the algorithm lead to a wrong node count number
> and therefore to a bad/incomplete IRQ affinity distribution.
> 
> For example, this problem were found in a machine with 128 CPUs and two
> nodes, namely nodes 0 and 8 (instead of 0 and 1, if it was linearly
> distributed). This led to a wrong affinity distribution which then led to
> a bad mq allocation for nvme driver.
> 
> Finally, we take the opportunity to fix a comment regarding the affinity
> distribution when we have _more_ nodes than vectors.

Very good catch! 

Acked-by: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@...il.com>