linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] irq: consider cpus on nodes are unbalanced

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Date:   Wed, 24 Nov 2021 20:33:49 +0100
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     Rei Yamamoto <yamamoto.rei@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, yamamoto.rei@...fujitsu.com,
        Ming Lei <ming.lei@...hat.com>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>, Keith Busch <kbusch@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] irq: consider cpus on nodes are unbalanced

Rei,

On Fri, Oct 29 2021 at 17:27, Rei Yamamoto wrote:

Cc'ing a few people who worked on this code.

> If cpus on a node are offline at boot time, there are
> difference in the number of nodes between when building affinity
> masks for present cpus and when building affinity masks for possible
> cpus. This patch fixes 2 problems caused by the difference of the
> number of nodes:
>
>  - If some unused vectors remain after building masks for present cpus,
>    remained vectors are assigned for building masks for possible cpus.
>    Therefore "numvecs <= nodes" condition must be
>    "vecs_to_assign <= nodes_to_assign". Fix this problem by making this
>    condition appropriate.
>
>  - The routine of "numvecs <= nodes" condition can overwrite bits of
>    masks for present cpus in building masks for possible cpus. Fix this
>    problem by making CPU bits, which is not target, not changing.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rei Yamamoto <yamamoto.rei@...fujitsu.com>
> ---
>  kernel/irq/affinity.c | 10 ++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/irq/affinity.c b/kernel/irq/affinity.c
> index f7ff8919dc9b..1cdf89e5e2fb 100644
> --- a/kernel/irq/affinity.c
> +++ b/kernel/irq/affinity.c
> @@ -267,10 +267,16 @@ static int __irq_build_affinity_masks(unsigned int startvec,
>  	 * If the number of nodes in the mask is greater than or equal the
>  	 * number of vectors we just spread the vectors across the nodes.
>  	 */
> -	if (numvecs <= nodes) {
> +	if (numvecs - (curvec - firstvec) <= nodes) {
>  		for_each_node_mask(n, nodemsk) {
> +			unsigned int ncpus;
> +
> +			cpumask_and(nmsk, cpu_mask, node_to_cpumask[n]);
> +			ncpus = cpumask_weight(nmsk);
> +			if (!ncpus)
> +				continue;
>  			cpumask_or(&masks[curvec].mask, &masks[curvec].mask,
> -				   node_to_cpumask[n]);
> +				   nmsk);
>  			if (++curvec == last_affv)
>  				curvec = firstvec;
>  		}