netdev - Re: mlx5 broken affinity

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1711091805380.1839@nanos>
Date:   Thu, 9 Nov 2017 18:07:51 +0100 (CET)
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     Jens Axboe <axboe@...com>
cc:     Sagi Grimberg <sagi@...mberg.me>, 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 Thu, 9 Nov 2017, Jens Axboe wrote:

> 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.

I say it one last time: It can be done and I'm willing to help.

Please tell me what exactly you expect and I can have a look what needs to
be done w/o creating an utter mess.

Thanks,

	tglx