netdev - Re: [PATCH net 1/3] net/mlx4_en: Don't use irq_affinity_notifier to track changes in IRQ affinity map

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Date:	Tue, 24 Jun 2014 10:51:22 +0300
From:	Amir Vadai <amirv.mellanox@...il.com>
To:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Yevgeny Petrilin <yevgenyp@...lanox.com>,
	Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@...lanox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 1/3] net/mlx4_en: Don't use irq_affinity_notifier
 to track changes in IRQ affinity map

On 6/23/2014 5:41 PM, Amir Vadai wrote:
> IRQ affinity notifier can only have a single notifier - cpu_rmap
> notifier. Can't use it to track changes in IRQ affinity map.
> Detect IRQ affinity changes by comparing CPU to current IRQ affinity map
> during NAPI poll thread.
> 
> Fixes: 2eacc23 ("net/mlx4_core: Enforce irq affinity changes immediatly")
> Signed-off-by: Amir Vadai <amirv@...lanox.com>

Hi,

It seems that this patch will break compilation on s390 architecture.
Please don't pull it - I will do some more work on it and send a V1 of
the patch set.

Amir
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