Re: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH net-next v6 0/5] net: napi: add CPU affinity to napi->config

[Joe Damato <jdamato@fastly.com>]

On Fri, Jan 17, 2025 at 05:33:30PM -0700, Ahmed Zaki wrote:
> Drivers usually need to re-apply the user-set IRQ affinity to their IRQs
> after reset. However, since there can be only one IRQ affinity notifier
> for each IRQ, registering IRQ notifiers conflicts with the ARFS rmap
> management in the core (which also registers separate IRQ affinity
> notifiers).   
> 
> Move the IRQ affinity management to the napi struct. This way we can have
> a unified IRQ notifier to re-apply the user-set affinity and also manage
> the ARFS rmaps. Patches 1 and 2 move the ARFS rmap management to CORE.
> Patch 3 adds the IRQ affinity mask to napi_config and re-applies the mask
> after reset. Patches 4-6 use the new API for bnxt, ice and idpf drivers.

Thanks for your work on this; I like the direction this is going and
I think providing this functionality via the core is very cool.

I am hoping that once this is merged, a change can be made that
builds on this work to eliminate the duplicated

  if (!cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, affinity_mask)) 

that a few drivers have in their napi poll functions with something
more generic for drivers which have persistent NAPI configs.