netdev - Re: mlx5 broken affinity

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Date:   Thu, 9 Nov 2017 13:11:57 -0700
From:   Jens Axboe <axboe@...com>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
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 11/09/2017 10:03 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Nov 2017, Jens Axboe wrote:
>> On 11/09/2017 07:19 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>> If that's the attitude at your end, then I do suggest we just revert the
>> driver changes. Clearly this isn't going to be productive going forward.
>>
>> The better solution was to make the managed setup more flexible, but
>> it doesn't sound like that is going to be viable at all.
> 
> That's not true. I indicated several times, that we can do that, but not
> just by breaking the managed facility.
> 
> What I'm arguing against is that the blame is focused on those who
> implemented the managed facility with the existing semantics.
> 
> I'm still waiting for a proper description of what needs to be changed in
> order to make these drivers work again. All I have seen so far is to break
> managed interrupts completely and that's not going to happen.

There's no blame as far as I'm concerned, just frustration that we broke
this and folks apparently not acknowledging that it's a concern.

What used to work was that you could move IRQs around as you wanted to.
That was very useful for custom setups, for tuning, or for isolation
purposes. None of that works now, which is unfortunate.

As a bare minimum, being able to specify a static mask at load time
would be useful. It's still not nearly as useful as it was before
where you could move them at runtime, but at least it's better than
what we have right now.

-- 
Jens Axboe