netdev - Re: [RFC v4 11/11] vduse: Support binding irq to the specified cpu

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Message-ID: <86af7b84-23f0-dca7-183b-e4d586cbcea6@redhat.com>
Date:   Fri, 5 Mar 2021 11:11:38 +0800
From:   Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>
To:     Yongji Xie <xieyongji@...edance.com>
Cc:     "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
        Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@...hat.com>,
        Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@...hat.com>,
        Parav Pandit <parav@...dia.com>, Bob Liu <bob.liu@...cle.com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk,
        Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, bcrl@...ck.org,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        kvm@...r.kernel.org, linux-aio@...ck.org,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC v4 11/11] vduse: Support binding irq to the specified cpu


On 2021/3/4 4:19 下午, Yongji Xie wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 3:30 PM Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 2021/2/23 7:50 下午, Xie Yongji wrote:
>>> Add a parameter for the ioctl VDUSE_INJECT_VQ_IRQ to support
>>> injecting virtqueue's interrupt to the specified cpu.
>>
>> How userspace know which CPU is this irq for? It looks to me we need to
>> do it at different level.
>>
>> E.g introduce some API in sys to allow admin to tune for that.
>>
>> But I think we can do that in antoher patch on top of this series.
>>
> OK. I will think more about it.


It should be soemthing like 
/sys/class/vduse/$dev_name/vq/0/irq_affinity. Also need to make sure 
eventfd could not be reused.

Thanks


>
> Thanks,
> Yongji
>