netdev - Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH 1/3] irq: Export irq_set

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Message-Id: <1256139354.2859.2.camel@achroite>
Date:	Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:35:54 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, gospo@...hat.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH 1/3] irq: Export irq_set_affinity() for
	drivers

On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 19:26 -0700, Jeff Kirsher wrote:
> From: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@...el.com>
> 
> This patch allows drivers to specify an IRQ affinity mask for
> their respective interrupt sources.  This is very useful on
> network adapters using MSI-X, where aligning network flows
> linearly to CPUs greatly improves efficiency of the network
> stack.
[...]

Since this is not networking-specific, I think it needs to go to
linux-kernel as well.

Ben.

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