netdev - Re: [PATCH v6 0/3] sched, net: NUMA-aware CPU spreading interface

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Message-ID: <20221102195616.6f55c894@kernel.org>
Date:   Wed, 2 Nov 2022 19:56:16 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Valentin Schneider <vschneid@...hat.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...dia.com>,
        Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        Yury Norov <yury.norov@...il.com>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
        Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>,
        Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@....com>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Heiko Carstens <hca@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
        Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@...wei.com>,
        Gal Pressman <gal@...dia.com>,
        Tariq Toukan <tariqt@...dia.com>,
        Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 0/3] sched, net: NUMA-aware CPU spreading interface

On Fri, 28 Oct 2022 17:49:56 +0100 Valentin Schneider wrote:
> Tariq pointed out in [1] that drivers allocating IRQ vectors would benefit
> from having smarter NUMA-awareness (cpumask_local_spread() doesn't quite cut
> it).
> 
> The proposed interface involved an array of CPUs and a temporary cpumask, and
> being my difficult self what I'm proposing here is an interface that doesn't
> require any temporary storage other than some stack variables (at the cost of
> one wild macro).
> 
> [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220728191203.4055-1-tariqt@nvidia.com/

Not sure who's expected to take these, no preference here so:

Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>

Thanks for ironing it out!