netdev - Re: mlx5 broken affinity

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Date:   Thu, 9 Nov 2017 09:09:59 -0700
From:   Jens Axboe <axboe@...com>
To:     Sagi Grimberg <sagi@...mberg.me>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
CC:     Jes Sorensen <jsorensen@...com>,
        Tariq Toukan <tariqt@...lanox.com>,
        Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@....mellanox.co.il>,
        Networking <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Leon Romanovsky <leonro@...lanox.com>,
        Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...lanox.com>,
        Kernel Team <kernel-team@...com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Subject: Re: mlx5 broken affinity

On 11/09/2017 09:01 AM, Sagi Grimberg wrote:
>> Now you try to blame the people who implemented the managed affinity stuff
>> for the wreckage, which was created by people who changed drivers to use
>> it. Nice try.
> 
> I'm not trying to blame anyone, really. I was just trying to understand
> how to move forward with making users happy and still enjoy subsystem
> services instead of doing lots of similar things inside mlx5 driver.

Exactly. The key here is how we make it work for both cases. But there
has to be a willingness to make the infrastructure work for that.

-- 
Jens Axboe