linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] nvme-pci: allow unmanaged interrupts

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Date: Mon, 20 May 2024 22:34:40 +0200
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc: Keith Busch <kbusch@...nel.org>, Ming Lei <ming.lei@...hat.com>,
 Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, Keith Busch <kbusch@...a.com>,
 linux-nvme@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] nvme-pci: allow unmanaged interrupts

On Mon, May 20 2024 at 17:37, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> On Sun, May 12, 2024 at 08:35:55AM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>> That's expected as you pin the I/O operation on the isolated CPUs which
>> in turn makes them use the per CPU queue.
>> 
>> The isolated CPUs are only excluded for device management interrupts,
>> but not for the affinity spread of the queues.
>
> We'll probably need a version of isolcpus that also excludes the
> interrupt spread given that users are asking for it.  And I'd much
> prefer that over adding radom module options to every driver to disable
> managed interrupts.

No objections from my side.