linux-kernel - Re: [RFC/PATCH] cpuset: cpuset irq affinities

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Date:	Tue, 04 Mar 2008 12:06:02 +0100
From:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
To:	Paul Jackson <pj@....com>
Cc:	maxk@...lcomm.com, mingo@...e.hu, tglx@...utronix.de,
	oleg@...sign.ru, rostedt@...dmis.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	rientjes@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] cpuset: cpuset irq affinities


On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 01:35 -0600, Paul Jackson wrote:
> Peter wrote:
> > OK, understood, I'll try and come up with yet another scheme :-)
> 
> Would your per-cpuset 'irqs' file work if, unlike pids in the 'tasks' file,
> we allowed the same irq to be listed in multiple 'irqs' files?

I did think of that, but that seems rather awkward. For one, how would
you remove an irq from a cpuset?

Secondly, the beauty of the current solution is that we use
irq_desc->cs->cpus_allowed, if it were in multiple sets, we'd have to
iterate a list, and cpus_or() the bunch.



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