netdev - Re: [PATCH] irq: Add node_affinity CPU masks for smarter irqbalance hints

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Date:	Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:26:15 +0100
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@...el.com>
CC:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"peterz@...radead.org" <peterz@...radead.org>,
	"arjan@...ux.intel.com" <arjan@...ux.intel.com>,
	"yong.zhang0@...il.com" <yong.zhang0@...il.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"arjan@...ux.jf.intel.com" <arjan@...ux.jf.intel.com>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] irq: Add node_affinity CPU masks for smarter irqbalance
 hints

Peter P Waskiewicz Jr a écrit :
 That's the kind of thing PJ is trying to make available.
> 
> Yes, that's exactly what I'm trying to do.  Even further, we want to
> allocate the ring SW struct itself and descriptor structures on other
> NUMA nodes, and make sure the interrupt lines up with those allocations.
> 

Say you allocate ring buffers on NUMA node of the CPU handling interrupt
on a particular queue.

If irqbalance or an admin changes /proc/irq/{number}/smp_affinities,
do you want to realloc ring buffer to another NUMA node ?

It seems complex to me, maybe optimal thing would be to use a NUMA policy to
spread vmalloc() allocations to all nodes to get a good bandwidth...

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