netdev - Re: net/mlx4: Mellanox driver update 01-01-2014

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Date:	Sun, 23 Feb 2014 19:25:04 +0200
From:	Amir Vadai <amirv@...lanox.com>
To:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	yevgenyp@...lanox.com, ogerlitz@...lanox.com, yuvala@...lanox.com
Subject: Re: net/mlx4: Mellanox driver update 01-01-2014

On 23/02/14 17:06 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Sun, 2014-02-23 at 11:01 +0200, Amir Vadai wrote:
> > On 22/02/14 01:33 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
[...]
> 
> Right, that does sound pretty good as a default.  And I accept that it
> would be reasonable to implement that initially without a tunable beyond
> total number of IRQs.
> 
> I would like to have a central mechanism for this that would allow the
> administrator to set a policy of spreading IRQs across all threads,
> cores, packages, local cores, etc.  (The out-of-tree version of sfc has
> such options.)  If you add the mechanism and default that you've
> proposed, then someone (maybe me) can get round to the configurable
> policy later.
> 
> Ben.
> 

What I'm preparing now is just a very simple helper function that
gets the local numa node and queue number as its inputs, and returns
the recommended cpumask.
A driver that would like to use it, will set using it the
affinity_hint.

This function does seem to be a convenient place for setting different
policies.

Amir.
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