netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next V4 1/2] net: Utility function to get affinity

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Date:	Mon, 10 Mar 2014 16:04:08 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	amirv@...lanox.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, yevgenyp@...lanox.com,
	ogerlitz@...lanox.com, prarit@...hat.com, gvaradar@...co.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next V4 1/2] net: Utility function to get
 affinity_hint by policy

From: Amir Vadai <amirv@...lanox.com>
Date: Sun,  9 Mar 2014 09:39:08 +0200

> This function sets the affinity_mask according to a numa aware policy.
> affinity_mask could be used as an affinity hint for the IRQ related to
> this rx queue.
> Current policy is to spread rx queues accross cores - local cores first.
> It could be extended in the future.
> 
> CC: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@...hat.com>
> CC: Govindarajulu Varadarajan <gvaradar@...co.com>
> Signed-off-by: Amir Vadai <amirv@...lanox.com>

I hate to delay this even more, but I think Ben is right, this is really
a generic function that probably belongs under kernel/  The block layer
folks to multiqueue things on some devices, and they therefore could find
it useful as well.
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