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Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2024 09:12:41 +0530
From: Somnath Kotur <somnath.kotur@...adcom.com>
To: Andy Gospodarek <andrew.gospodarek@...adcom.com>
Cc: Mohammad Heib <mheib@...hat.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org, michael.chan@...adcom.com,
skotur@...adcom.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] bnxt_en: use irq_update_affinity_hint()
On Thu, Nov 7, 2024 at 4:54 AM Andy Gospodarek
<andrew.gospodarek@...adcom.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Nov 06, 2024 at 08:08:11PM +0200, Mohammad Heib wrote:
> > irq_set_affinity_hint() is deprecated, Use irq_update_affinity_hint()
> > instead. This removes the side-effect of actually applying the affinity.
> >
> > The driver does not really need to worry about spreading its IRQs across
> > CPUs. The core code already takes care of that. when the driver applies the
> > affinities by itself, it breaks the users' expectations:
> >
> > 1. The user configures irqbalance with IRQBALANCE_BANNED_CPULIST in
> > order to prevent IRQs from being moved to certain CPUs that run a
> > real-time workload.
> >
> > 2. bnxt_en device reopening will resets the affinity
> > in bnxt_open().
> >
> > 3. bnxt_en has no idea about irqbalance's config, so it may move an IRQ to
> > a banned CPU. The real-time workload suffers unacceptable latency.
> >
>
> Thanks for the patch. This seems inline with what have been done in other
> drivers.
>
> > Signed-off-by: Mohammad Heib <mheib@...hat.com>
> Reviewed-by: Andy Gospodarek <gospo@...adcom.com>
>
> > ---
> > drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c | 6 +++---
> > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c
> > index 99d025b69079..cd82f93b20a1 100644
> > --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c
> > +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c
> > @@ -10885,7 +10885,7 @@ static void bnxt_free_irq(struct bnxt *bp)
> > irq = &bp->irq_tbl[map_idx];
> > if (irq->requested) {
> > if (irq->have_cpumask) {
> > - irq_set_affinity_hint(irq->vector, NULL);
> > + irq_update_affinity_hint(irq->vector, NULL);
> > free_cpumask_var(irq->cpu_mask);
> > irq->have_cpumask = 0;
> > }
> > @@ -10940,10 +10940,10 @@ static int bnxt_request_irq(struct bnxt *bp)
> > irq->have_cpumask = 1;
> > cpumask_set_cpu(cpumask_local_spread(i, numa_node),
> > irq->cpu_mask);
> > - rc = irq_set_affinity_hint(irq->vector, irq->cpu_mask);
> > + rc = irq_update_affinity_hint(irq->vector, irq->cpu_mask);
> > if (rc) {
> > netdev_warn(bp->dev,
> > - "Set affinity failed, IRQ = %d\n",
> > + "Update affinity hint failed, IRQ = %d\n",
> > irq->vector);
> > break;
> > }
> > --
> > 2.34.3
> >
>
Reviewed-by: Somnath Kotur <somnath.kotur@...adcom.com>
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