netdev - Re: [PATCH] net/mlx5: Fix mlx5_get_vector

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Date:   Sun, 6 May 2018 09:33:26 +0200 (CEST)
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
cc:     Israel Rukshin <israelr@...lanox.com>,
        Max Gurtovoy <maxg@...lanox.com>,
        Matan Barak <matanb@...lanox.com>,
        Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>, linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/mlx5: Fix mlx5_get_vector_affinity function

On Sat, 5 May 2018, Guenter Roeck wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 09:49:11AM +0000, Israel Rukshin wrote:
> > Adding the vector offset when calling to mlx5_vector2eqn() is wrong.
> > This is because mlx5_vector2eqn() checks if EQ index is equal to vector number
> > and the fact that the internal completion vectors that mlx5 allocates
> > don't get an EQ index.
> > 
> > The second problem here is that using effective_affinity_mask gives the same
> > CPU for different vectors.
> > This leads to unmapped queues when calling it from blk_mq_rdma_map_queues().
> > This doesn't happen when using affinity_hint mask.
> > 
> Except that affinity_hint is only defined if SMP is enabled. Without:
> 
> include/linux/mlx5/driver.h: In function ‘mlx5_get_vector_affinity_hint’:
> include/linux/mlx5/driver.h:1299:13: error:
>         ‘struct irq_desc’ has no member named ‘affinity_hint’
> 
> Note that this is the only use of affinity_hint outside kernel/irq.
> Don't other drivers have similar problems ?

Aside of that.

> >  static inline const struct cpumask *
> > -mlx5_get_vector_affinity(struct mlx5_core_dev *dev, int vector)
> > +mlx5_get_vector_affinity_hint(struct mlx5_core_dev *dev, int vector)
> >  {
> > -	const struct cpumask *mask;
> >  	struct irq_desc *desc;
> >  	unsigned int irq;
> >  	int eqn;
> >  	int err;
> >  
> > -	err = mlx5_vector2eqn(dev, MLX5_EQ_VEC_COMP_BASE + vector, &eqn, &irq);
> > +	err = mlx5_vector2eqn(dev, vector, &eqn, &irq);
> >  	if (err)
> >  		return NULL;
> >  
> >  	desc = irq_to_desc(irq);
> > -#ifdef CONFIG_GENERIC_IRQ_EFFECTIVE_AFF_MASK
> > -	mask = irq_data_get_effective_affinity_mask(&desc->irq_data);
> > -#else
> > -	mask = desc->irq_common_data.affinity;
> > -#endif
> > -	return mask;
> > +	return desc->affinity_hint;

NAK.

Nothing in regular device drivers is supposed to ever fiddle with struct
irq_desc. The existing code is already a violation of that rule and needs
to be fixed, but not in that way.

The logic here is completely screwed. affinity_hint is set by the driver,
so the driver already knows what it is. If the driver does not set it, then
the thing is NULL.

Thanks,

	tglx