linux-kernel - Re: [patch 00/55] genirq: Debuggability, consolidation and managed affinities

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Date:   Tue, 20 Jun 2017 11:23:12 +0200
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
        Keith Busch <keith.busch@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 00/55] genirq: Debuggability, consolidation and managed
        affinities

On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 01:37:00AM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> This started out with 5 patches from Christoph who wanted to add a
> mechanism for interrupts with managed affinities to spread them over all
> present CPUs and instead of migrating them, shut them down into managed
> shutdown state when the last CPU in the affinity set goes offline and then
> resume them when a CPU to which belongs to the affinity set comes online
> again. See:
> 
>    http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170603140403.27379-1-hch@lst.de

FYI, this seems to work fine for me with the additional block patches
from that series applied.