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Message-ID: <20100906174245.GA12956@sgi.com> Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2010 10:42:45 -0700 From: Arthur Kepner <akepner@....com> To: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] mlx4_core: module param to limit msix vec allocation On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 07:30:46PM -0700, David Miller wrote: > ... > Likely there would be a set of policies just like the cpu > power management layer we have. And there would be a default, > and userland could override the default. Thanks. I had thought this over again, and come up with something like what you describe. Testing now, and plan to send a work-in-progress patch later today for comments. > > This also means there would have to be notifications sent to > drivers when the distribution and allocation policy of MSI-X > interrupts is changed. This is so that, for example, network > drivers can reconfigure their network queues for the new set > of MSI-X vectors available to them after the policy change. Hadn't considered this. Will have to add it. -- Arthur -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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