From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
To: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, gospo@redhat.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH 1/3] irq: Export irq_set_affinity() for drivers
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:35:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1256139354.2859.2.camel@achroite> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091021022626.32449.73883.stgit@localhost.localdomain>
On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 19:26 -0700, Jeff Kirsher wrote:
> From: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com>
>
> This patch allows drivers to specify an IRQ affinity mask for
> their respective interrupt sources. This is very useful on
> network adapters using MSI-X, where aligning network flows
> linearly to CPUs greatly improves efficiency of the network
> stack.
[...]
Since this is not networking-specific, I think it needs to go to
linux-kernel as well.
Ben.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-21 15:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-21 2:26 [net-next-2.6 PATCH 1/3] irq: Export irq_set_affinity() for drivers Jeff Kirsher
2009-10-21 2:27 ` [net-next-2.6 PATCH 2/3] ixgbe: Set MSI-X vectors to NOBALANCING and set affinity Jeff Kirsher
2009-10-22 4:50 ` David Miller
2009-10-22 8:22 ` Peter P Waskiewicz Jr
2009-10-22 10:56 ` David Miller
2009-10-22 21:45 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-11-12 19:12 ` Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P
2009-11-18 18:10 ` David Miller
2009-11-18 19:46 ` Ben Hutchings
2009-11-18 19:50 ` David Miller
2009-11-19 1:14 ` Peter P Waskiewicz Jr
2009-11-19 6:28 ` David Miller
2009-10-21 2:27 ` [net-next-2.6 PATCH 3/3] ixgbe: Make queue pairs on single MSI-X interrupts Jeff Kirsher
2009-10-21 15:35 ` Ben Hutchings [this message]
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