netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] enic: assign affinity hint to interrupts

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Message-Id: <20151030.182138.949964414988071678.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 30 Oct 2015 18:21:38 +0900 (KST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	_govind@....com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, benve@...co.com, ssujith@...co.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] enic: assign affinity hint to interrupts

From: Govindarajulu Varadarajan <_govind@....com>
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 23:28:42 +0530

> Introduce enic module global variable enic_numa_count[] to store the
> number of affinity_hints set. If there are more than one enic interfaces,
> we do not want them to share same affinity hint cpus. We store the
> history of affinity hint assignment of all interfaces in global variable
> enic_numa_count. Introduce enic_affinity_hint spinlock to access
> enic_numa_count.

This is policy outside of the domain of your driver, no other networking
driver does this.  Please remove this aspect of your change.
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