netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] hv_netvsc: Use the num_online

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Date:   Mon, 22 Jan 2018 16:24:27 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     haiyangz@...rosoft.com, haiyangz@...hange.microsoft.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, kys@...rosoft.com, sthemmin@...rosoft.com,
        olaf@...fle.de, vkuznets@...hat.com, devel@...uxdriverproject.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] hv_netvsc: Use the num_online_cpus() for
 channel limit

From: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...hange.microsoft.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2018 13:26:43 -0700

> From: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>
> 
> Since we no longer localize channel/CPU affiliation within one NUMA
> node, num_online_cpus() is used as the number of channel cap, instead of
> the number of processors in a NUMA node.
> 
> This patch allows a bigger range for tuning the number of channels.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>

Applied, thanks.